MPV segment sales pick up speed

In the first eight months of the year, sales of MPVs (family cars with a minimum of five seats) have seen an almost 100% increase against the same time last year, to 2,222 units. The best selling model on this segment is Skoda Roomster, a model launched on the Romanian market in the first quarter of this year. It sold a total of 503 units in the first eight months of the year and 69 in August alone. Ford S-Max is manufactured on a common platform with Galaxy, launched by the American carmaker on the Romanian market in the summer of last year, and is ninth in the MPV ranking with 95 units, with 14 sold in August. During the same period, Galaxy sold 32 units. “The MPV segment is still under development on the Romanian market, and has still not reached its true potential,” said Catalin Gavra, general manager of Romcar, Ford’s importer on the Romanian market. This summer, Ford launched C-Max’s facelift version, the compact MPV of the range, built on a common platform with the Focus.