The "market" share of brands Aro, Lada, Wartburg, Moskvich,Trabant and Volga has fallen to nearly 1.6% of the overall nationalcar stock, i.e. around 66,000 cars, according to the CarRegistration Department (DRPCIV).
Prior to 1989 these brands were a symbol of affluence, as very fewRomanians could afford to buy such cars, which were the equivalentof the current top models of Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche andBentley.
For instance, more than two thirds of Aro's overall production wasexported, with Romanian clients having to pay "incentives" thatsometimes were twice as high as the car price, while for a newTrabant delivered from the former German Democratic Republic, onecould wait up to 18 years, with parents signing children up to thewaiting list at birth.
At present, with nearly 180,000 cars older than 20 years beingscrapped this year via the car fleet renewal scheme alone, thefleet of "collection" cars is on a decline. Whilst in 2008 therewere around 88,200 such cars in circulation, the equivalent ofnearly 2.3% of the then car fleet, last year their share decreasedto 1.8% or 77,800 cars, and to 66,500 units in the third quarter ofthe year.
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