





Black January for car sales in Romania: Dacia, Ford, Opel Skoda and Chevrolet sales drop by more than 70%
The crisis, the uncertainty over the new version of the environmental tax and harsher conditions for bank credits downgraded the car market by 64% in January alone. Dacia registered the biggest decreases as sales dropped to 1,600 units compared to 6,000 in January last year. Ford managed to sell only 322 cars, registering a 77% drop compared to January 2008.
If Opel usually sold at least 1,500 cars per month, a 76% decrease cut sales to less than 300. Chevrolet is another company to feel the economic crunch with a 73% drop in sales in January, with less then 200 car sales/month. Skoda seemed to have followed the trend with a sale regression of 72%.