Dacia sales on the French market up 42.8%

Dacia sales on the French market totalled 20,029 units in the first seven months of this year, up 42.9% from the 14,023 cars sold during the same time last year. The car manufacturer held a 1.5% share seven months into the year, against 1% in the January-August period 2006, according to data from the French Automobile Manufacturers Committee. In August, Dacia sold 2,407 cars in France (a 2.2% market share), an over 100% increase from the 1,031 cars sold during the corresponding month of last year, when the Romanian manufacturer covered 0.9% of the market. Overall car sales on the French market stagnated in the first seven months of the year and totalled 1,375,000 units.