Dacia is heading to the top

Dacia is one of the companies that benefit from the crisis. According to a consumer survey made in Germany, 11,5% of the ones questioned, are considering to buy a Dacia in response to the "Environment Package" offered by the German government. This policy is meant to indirectly support the car manufacturers during the crisis. 

However, according to the "official version" of the policy, this is meant to be an environmental policy, aimed at progressively changing all the old cars to new cars which conform to the EURO 4 standard. Described in a sentence, the package was voted at the end of January 2009, and offers EUR 2500 to the owners of cars which are older than nine years, who opt for composting their old car and buy a new one.

All in all, the German package of promoting European car manufacturers is in fact promoting Romanian cars and small cars.