{"id":8711,"date":"2026-02-04T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:00:24","slug":"chinese-brands-share-on-romanias-car-market-surges-nearly-tenfold-y-y-to-9-5-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8711","title":{"rendered":"Chinese brands&#8217; share on Romania&#8217;s car market surges nearly tenfold y\/y to 9.5% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese automakers have come to represent almost one in ten cars delivered on the Romanian market in January 2026, up from under 1% market share one year earlier, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/companii\/ce-se-mai-intampla-pe-piata-auto-marcile-chinezesti-incep-2026-cu-23037814?mc_cid=5668ca9f52&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>, citing official new car registration data. Chinese producers reached a 5.4% market share in November, over 6% in December, and in January 2026, almost 9.5% of new car registrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In just one year, Chinese brands have thus multiplied their presence on the local market almost tenfold.<\/p>\n<p>BYD leads the charge with 312 units registered in January, up from just one car a year ago and entering the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>Chery, absent last year, debuted with 212 units in 15th place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BYD woke up the market, honestly. Until we arrived, it was like everyone was sleeping,&#8221; said Andrei Duic\u0103, BYD deputy country manager for Romania and Bulgaria, in an interview with Ziarul Financiar.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Bennnn\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese automakers have come to represent almost one in ten cars delivered on the Romanian market in January 2026, up from under 1% market share one year earlier, according to Ziarul Financiar, citing official new car registration data. Chinese producers reached a 5.4% market share in November, over 6% in December, and in January 2026, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}