Car sales continued to rise in April, to over 10,000 units,according to auto market players, up by around 10% against theprevious month. Compared with the similar period of last year, lastmonth's sales saw a 25% decline, the lowest in 15 months.
The "Rabla" (junk car) scrappage scheme had a major impact on Aprilresults, while last year's scheme started in the last week ofApril.
"We expect nearly 40% of the 10,000 cars sold in April to be boughtas part of the car scrappage scheme," said Alin Tapalaga, head ofPorsche Inter Auto (PIA), the retail division of Porsche Romania.However, the PIA manager expects this percentage to gradually fallover the next few months. Even so, around 40-50% of the 100,000cars to be bought on the Romanian market this year will bepurchases made using "Rabla" vouchers, according to auto marketofficials.
In the first four months of the year, car sales fell by over 30%compared with the similar period of last year, to almost 41,500cars.
In April, the best-selling car brands on the Romanian marketremained local brands - Dacia, with 4,200 cars sold and a 38%market share, its biggest in five years, followed by Ford, withnearly 950 cars, and Volkswagen, with around 850 units.
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