Romanian Cars

Rovinietas for all

by Craig Turp February 15, 2011 Bucharest

 A marvelous example of inequality at work in Romania: Romanian subsistence farmers, living in small villages and benefiting from very little income, want to drive (probably in an old Dacia) to the nearest town of any decent size to sell their produce. As they will be using national roads, they need to buy a Rovinieta [...]

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Dacia: Romania’s good news story

by Craig Turp January 14, 2010 Bucharest

  As kids we never told Dacia jokes. Dacias simply weren’t available in the United Kingdom. We have heard (or did we read, once?) that there was an aborted attempt to market Dacias in the UK in the 1970s, but it never got off the ground. Instead, the Eastern European car of choice in Britain [...]

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