Romania’s Dacia Beats Mercedes Sales In Germany

Germany’s program subsidizing the purchase of new cars, through granting a bonus of EUR2,500 upon the dismantling of an old car, led to an explosion of Romanian-made Dacia impost, which are seen as more attractive than Mercedes models, Financial Times Deutschland informed.

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The main beneficiary of the dispute between France and Germany on the granting of state aid for the auto industry is, according to the German daily, French group Renault, which holds the plant in central Romanian city Pitesti. After the introduction of the vehicle dismantling bonus, Dacia sales soared.

Thus, for the Sandero model, seen as “the most presentable” of the Dacia rage, sales reached some 1,000 units per week, which is a spectacular growth, from the some 80 models sold weekly before the introduction of the program, according to.

The sales support triggered a growth of 220,000 in the number of cars sold, according to the association of car producers and distributors in Germany ZDK.

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