Car sales in Romania will end 2024 up 1.7% y-o-y in the case of passenger cars and 0.6% in the case of light commercial vehicles, according to a PwC Autofacts report that analysed five markets in Central Europe.

„After a weak evolution in the first quarter, including the results of incentives for the purchase of green vehicles being sized down, it was expected that the estimate for the whole year would indicate a slight increase for car sales. The signs of the market’s recovery appeared in April, when there was an increase of over 34%, but it should be mentioned that the month coincided with the end of the first session of the Rabla Plus scrappage programme. The good news for the automotive sector is that production is on a positive trend, especially on the light commercial vehicle segment,” according to Daniel Anghel, Partner and Automotive Industry Leader PwC Romania.

Despite a 10.2% drop in car sales in the first quarter of 2024 y-o-y, this is the second consecutive quarter in which the threshold of 30,000 units sold was exceeded, Autofacts shows.

Dacia remains the best-selling brand, and Tesla doubled its sales in the same period and climbed 11 positions to enter the top 10.

The markets analysed in this report are Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

AGERPRES