Top selling car brands ten months into the year

Ten car brands saw sales increases in the first ten months of this year compared with the similar period of 2009, according to statistics of the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, with four of the brands being utility vehicles, and three, BMW, MINI and Porsche, being premium and luxury brands. In October, the penultimate month in the “Rabla” car scrappage scheme when cars older than ten years can be scrapped, nearly 20 car brands saw their sales up, with Opel and Seat seeing even a three-digit increase, which has not been seen in over three years.

On the other hand, brands such as Saab, Jaguar and Lada did not manage to sell any car on the Romanian market last month, while Lexus, Alfa Romeo, Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler sold a few units each. In July 14 car brands saw positive results, while in the first seven months, 13 brands were on the rise, according to APIA.
In the ranking of the top ten best-selling car brands, only Chevrolet saw an over 26% rise in the first ten months of the year, while the rest saw declines between 3% in the case of Opel and over 50% in the case of Hyundai and Fiat. As far as the best-selling models are concerned, seven out of ten models saw rises between January and October, with the biggest ones being recorded by Opel Astra (188%) and Ford Fiesta (80%), and the smallest one by VW Golf (1%).