In the first two months of this year, 27 car brands out of the 45 ones present in Romania and that sell at least one passenger car per month registered a positive result compared with the similar period of last year, reveals a ZF survey, while 18 were still in the red.
Out of the brands that registered growth, five posted a three-digit sales advance, values that have not been seen for almost four years. The biggest increase in January-February was reported by Alfa Romeo, a brand imported domestically by AutoItalia, which sold almost 20 cars in the first two months, up by 260% from a year ago. Second came MAN trucks with 61 units, up 135%, while Suzuki filled the third position.
All these brands are not volume brands, though, so that a product with sales of 20-30 cars per month can much more easily see sales double or even triple compared with a brand that sells several hundred cars monthly. In the first two months, new car sales rose by 20%.
At the opposite end of the ranking, the steepest sales decline, without taking into account the brands that sold no car, was registered by Lexus, which sold 3 units in the first two months, against 8 a year ago.