The Romanian car market reached an overall volume of over 5,400vehicles, up nearly 25% against the similar period of last year,the first rise recorded in three years.
Car sales went up 16% to nearly 4,400 units, with January being thelast month when cars could be bought using vouchers as part of the"Rabla" car scrappage scheme in 2010.
Surprisingly, the segment with the strongest rise was thecommercial utility vehicles segment, which rose nearly 83% lastmonth, to almost 1,000 units, after last year it fell 27%. Thisshows the economy is starting to budge, with companies kicking offfleet renewal and expansion programmes. Over 18-tonne lorries usedin international transport rose by 130% to around 50 units, whilelight commercial utility vehicles, of under 3.5 tonnes, rose 90% toover 800 vehicles.
As the economy rebounds, sales of heavy lorries will return to thevolume reached in 2006, of nearly 4,400 units, which could mean adoubling of volumes against 2010, according to Stefano Albarosa,head of Cefin, the biggest Iveco dealer on the Romanian market.Michael Schmidt, owner of MHS Truck&Bus, importer of MANtrucks, in turn said in mid last month that the first signalspointed to the market beginning to thaw, with over 200 lorriesordered in January, i.e. almost half the number of lorriesdelivered in 2010 as a whole.
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