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Domestic car industry confronted with global crisis

The car industry of Romania is undergoing an emergency situation and under these circumstances measures have to be taken to overcome the situation, officials of the car domestic industry told daily Business Standard.

'We are in an estate of emergency, not an effective crisis, but we have to do something, not to expect to enter the intensive care section. The rise in the section of import is Romanians' option for more expensive cars. Alarming is I think the high number of used cars which entered the country,' said vice-president of Automobile Dacia Constantin Stroe.

The opinion of official of Dacia car plant is shared by the representative of the Romanian Automotive Producers and Importers Association (APIA) who stresses that the evolution of car sales over the past months point to the start of the crisis.

Alin Tapalaga, general manager of Porsche Inter Auto, division of retail of importer Porsche Romania said that the relatively low diminution of sales in 10 months is prompted in fact by the very good results reported before the outbreak of the crisis.

'For the time being we are living from the very good results registered in the first half of the year. We have to see what will happen next because the automotive industry is a sensitive barometer of the economic situation, reacting immediately to the population's estate,' said Tapalaga.

Over January-October, 2008, the sales of domestic car maker Automobile Dacia went down 13.1 percent as against the same period of the previous year, reaching 67.772 units.

The market share held by Dacia on the local market went down in the aforementioned period from 30.2 percent to 27.8 percent.

At the same time, the market of new cars went down in the aforementioned d interval by 5.7 percent, reaching 243,475 units, according to APIA figures.

On the other hand, the demand for imported cars increased 1.9 percent, reaching 169,000 units.

 

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