New car registrations in Romania fell by 26.4% in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2025, while, at the opposite end of the scale, registrations of mopeds and motorcycles increased by 20.4%, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS) data released on Wednesday.
Over the same reference period, registrations of buses and minibuses decreased by 44.7%.
Overall, registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport increased by 9.8% for mopeds and motorcycles, but fell for buses and minibuses (-37.3%) and passenger cars (-19.8%).
According to the quoted source, new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport recorded an increase in the tractor units category (+0.5%), while decreases were recorded in the lorries category (special purpose vehicles included) - down 10.5% - and in the trailers and semi-trailers category - down 0.6%.
Moreover, new registrations of new road vehicles for goods transport recorded an increase in the trailers and semi-trailers category (+0.3%), but decreases in the lorries category (special purpose vehicles included) - down 5.9% - and in the road tractor category (-0.3%).
In the third quarter of 2026, the new registrations of road vehicles for passenger transport fell by 3.1% compared to the second quarter of 2026 and the new registrations of road vehicles for goods transport were down 3.0%.
At the end of the third quarter of 2026, 67.5% of the road vehicles registered classified according to the European emissions standards were Euro 4, Euro 5 or Euro 6 vehicles and 9.2% were Non-Euro vehicles.
Within the passenger cars category, the highest share was that of Euro 4 vehicles, namely 31.3%; within the buses and minibuses category, the highest number of vehicles (namely 23.6%) were Euro 6 vehicles; as regards the mopeds and motorcycles, the greatest number of vehicles within this category (namely 23.0%) were Euro 5 vehicles.
The Euro 3 vehicles prevailed within the lorries category (25.4%); the Euro 6 vehicles prevailed within the road tractors category (50.7%) and within the category of special purpose road vehicles (22.5%).
The data published by the INS are based on statistics from the General Directorate for Driving Licences and Vehicle Registration (DGPCI) and do not include re-registrations resulting from the change of ownership following the sale of a vehicle, nor trams and trolleybuses, military vehicles, agricultural trailers and housing vehicles.
