Last year, nearly 10% of the Gross Domestic Product and over 10%of exports were accounted for by cars and by car parts, and withFord announcing a production similar to that of the Dacia plant,the percentage could rise to over 15% after 2013.
For component manufacturers attending the Auto Romaniaconference organised by the Association of Automotive Manufacturersin Romania, this is a godsend: at Dacia production has been goingup steadily for six years and Ford Romania's plans are at leastsimilarly ambitious - a production capacity of 300,000 cars andengines in 2013 and an actual production of at least 200,000units.
In the autumn of 2008, six months after Ford officially took overthe Craiova plant, John Fleming, then president of Ford Europe andthe one who decided that the American brand should enter theRomanian market, came to Bucharest with a delegation of 40component manufacturers, who were given a presentation of the plantand of its future plans. Now, nearly two years on, Dionisio diCampos, announces that Ford will start production of B-Max, thefuture B-segment model which will be exclusively assembled inCraiova, as well as a steady pace of 85 Transit Connect utilityvehicles a day.
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