Petrescu Nicolae Daniel, Petrescu Mariana, Evolution Of Automobiles Market, Analele Universitatii Din Oradea, St. Economice, , Volumul Iv, Tom Xvii,… [617656]

1087 EVOLUTION OF AUTOMOBILES MARKET
Petrescu Nicolae-Daniel
Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti, Scoala Doct orala, Domeniu Marketing, Str. Nicolae
Titulescu, Nr 17, bl. I5ab, sc. b, ap. 5, Craiova, Dolj, [anonimizat], [anonimizat]
Petrescu Mariana
Universitatea din Craiova, Facultatea de Economie s i Administrarea Afacerilor, Master Managementul
si Dezvoltarea Resurselor Umane, Str. Nicolae Titul escu, Nr 17, bl. I5ab, sc. b, ap. 5, Craiova, Dolj,
[anonimizat], [anonimizat]

Marketing analyze the condition that defines the me chanism and market evolution.Being in a permanent
movement because of new models, permanent changes, development of technology and market penetration
by Asian car manufacturers, the auto market can be characterized as one of the most dynamic markets.
Using of a proper strategy will let to survive and even to success in the hard competition from auto m arket.
An important place for success in automobile intern ational market is represented by the product
promotion, positioning it in the consumer mind.
Automobiles are products capable of a pronounced di fference; the difference is made by shape, attribut es,
characteristics, durability, liability, style, qual itative performance.
Cuvinte cheie: marketing, market, automobile , sale s

General economical theory defines the market by the selling-buying relations, establish between the
contractual parts, the products and services provid ers on one part and the consumers on the other part ;
complex mechanism of confrontations between demand (solicitations, needs, desires of consumers) and
supply (diversity of goods and supply services) und er the form of selling-buying document.
Marketing analyze the condition that defines the me chanism and market evolution, explaining the
consumer comportment, analyze the level and evoluti on of prices, competition behavior, real and potent ial
supply, real and potential demand, ideally but also the macro environment (demographic, economical,
technological, social, political, institutional, an d cultural environment).
The market can be structured in: internal market, e xternal market, organization market and products
market. Between total market and products market an d organization market are establish interdependent
relations named market rapport’s (indifferent rappo rt’s, association rapport’s and substitution rappor t’s).
The market is defined in rapport with the ensemble of realized transactions, the location of realized
transaction with a certain product, products gamma and necessary time for realize the transactions.
In its evolution in time the market goes four stage s same as the product life cycle: beginning stage, growing
stage, maturity stage and decline stage.
• beginning stage is close to the existence of a unsa tisfied need, the appearance of a new
product. In this moment it is identify with the pro duct market;
• growing stage means the satisfy of the need by more producers, the similar products offered
by those are suffering a difference process;
• the maturity stage is formed by the market of more products related with concurrence, the
market is suffering an accentuate segmentation;
• decline stage is determined by the technology evolu tion and by following down the demand
for existent products, the companies are abandoning the market of some products and create
new products and implicit new markets.
The study of automobiles market resume the analyze of demand, analyze of automobiles supply for
identify the structure and the dynamics of the supp ly but also to investigate the buying comportment o f the
automobiles buyers.
The automobiles production represents one of the mo st important economical activities, which is relate d
with other economical sectors, we assist today at a global process, an expanding of automobiles market .

1088 World production of automobiles was placed in 2006 at a level of 67 millions in according to a study
realized by American organization WORLDWATCH INSTIT UTE; SUA was the most important auto
producer with 10.8milions, followed by Japan. On th e other hand China is in a rapid grow, and the Asia n
state will become an important provider in the foll owing four years.
Being in a permanent movement because of new models , permanent changes, development of technology
and market penetration by Asian car manufacturers, the auto market can be characterized as one of the
most dynamic markets
Using of a proper strategy will let to surviving an d even to success in the hard competition from auto
market. At the beginning the change does not repres ent a problem, in the fifty’s in United States purc hasing
of a car means the acquisition of a model from GM, Ford, Chrysler or American Motors. In our days the
choice of a car is more complicated the automobile range is bigger GM, Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota,
Honda, Volkswagen, Fiat, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Renaul t, Suzuki, Daihatsu, BMW, Hyundai, Daiwa, Mazda,
Isuzu, Kia or Volvo.
At the same time the number of auto-models had grow , at the beginning of seventy’s were 140 models, in
the present are a little more then 260 car models.
Even on small market of deluxe sport cars which cos ts over 175000 dollars a piece, the competition is in
growing, the models from this market are: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, a new sport-car Bentley
and the new Mercedes Vision SLR.
Thirty years ago most car manufacturers offers a fe w automobiles styles, in our days are the following car
types: SUV (sport utility vehicle), coupe, break, t wo places cars, trucks, and auto trucks; this fact is leading
to force the companies to find new financial resour ces to produce the models.
In our days, the big difference is that the nationa l markets with local companies that compete for bus iness –
are being transformed in a global market, because t oday the competition is at the global scale (Jack Trout
– Trout Despre Strategie)
The automobile market has been diversified very mat ch as the computers market, at the beginning the
consumers could chose only from three brands Chevro let, Ford and Plymouth.
The extension of chose possibilities in the auto ma rket can be exemplified by extension of car models from
140 in the seventy’s to 260 in the present; automob ile styles from 654 in the seventy’s to 1121 in the
present, and as a different market share from 8 SUV models in the seventy’s at 38 models in the presen t.
An important place for success in automobile intern ational market is represented by the product prom
ovation. Chevrolet is one of the most promoted prod ucts in the world; General Motors spend in one of t he
latest year over 178 millions dollars for promoting the product in the United States. At the same time must
be taken in consideration the problems which are be ing in a society which communicate in excess that’s
why it must realized the product positioning in the consumer mind.
Chevrolet has been the brand with the best car sell ing in United States, for example, in 1986 Chevrole t
Division from General Motors had sold 1 718 839 uni ts, but because they want to satisfy to every one a nd
to grow the number of models had underestimated the branding force, today Chevrolet sales about one
million cars and is in the second place after Ford. Conform to Al Ries, Chevrolet has 10 separate mode ls
and Ford has 8, that is one of the reasons Ford has raised above Chevrolet in United States – the forc e of
branding is un proportioned with its extension. Che vrolet Company has on the market more automobiles
because they want to sell more auto vehicle, in a s hort period of time they succeeded but in a long pe riod of
time they underestimated the brand name in the mind of consumer witch will go to affect the number on
sold units.
In a recent classification in United States, made w ith 16 automobile brands, number one seen from qual ity
point of view is on the 12th place in sales, number two is in the 9th selling place, and number three in
quality perception is in on the last place of sales classification. In the case that quality will be t ranslate in
sales results, but it is not like this. Most buyers want to acquisition the car with the best quality they can
afford. Quality or much more perception of quality is in the mind of consumers. For building a powerfu l
brand must be built a powerful perception of qualit y in the customer mind. One factor for building the
perception of quality is to establish of a higher p rice. Names as Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce are brand s
witch have benefits after a high price.

1089 In Romania the automobile was introduced at the end of XIX century at the beginning of production star t
in world scale. At the end of XIX century in Romani a were 60 registered automobiles that ones gathered in
the year 1904 in automobile society Romanian Automo bile Club (ACR).
So, the automobile history in Romania concurs with the History of Romanian Automobile Club. In
September 1904, A.C.R. has made the first automobil e rally on the Bucuresti – Giurgiu road and back, a nd
at the end of that year A.C.R. was numbering 29 mem bers and 19 countries clubs. Romania was situated i n
the first ten countries in Europe where automobile circulated, and was in the first 6 worlds states wi tch
organized automobile competitions (information’s fr om www.acr.ro/Romanian/denumire.htm).
In 1895 three peoples from Craiova Romania had boug ht three Benz carriages with 10 HP motors, one year
later were imported another 3 carriages, a Peugeot, a Rochet-Schnaider and a tricycle Bollee, in 1898 had
been imported an Oldsmobile, by the year 1906 had b een imported in Romania a number of 150 auto
vehicles, in the year 1907 number was 233, and in 1 912 the number reach at 850, the most numerous
brands were Mercedes, Panhard and Dion-Bouton.
From year 1910 it beginning the fabrication of auto mobiles with four cylinders of 20, 30, 40 HP under the
licenses of Westinghouse at Arad at Marta Company M arta (Magyar Automobil Reszveny Tarsasag Arad).
The beginning year of the First World War catch Rom ania with 650 auto vehicles produced and at the
same date ware circulate 1000 automobiles.
After the year 1918 the number of automobiles grow because the branch of Renault, Fiat, Ford, Chevrole t,
and General Motors, in 1926 in Romania were more th en 11 300 automobiles.
In 1935 Ford Romania Factory from Bucharest began t he production of model Ford 193 equipped with the
60 HP; in the year 1945 the engineering Radu Manica tide produced a mini auto vehicle M.R. 1945
equipped with modified monocycle 11.5 HP engine, in the year 1946 had been produced a prototype auto
vehicle in Malaxa Factories, followed by the buildi ng of an automobile in the factories from Brasov un der
supervising of engineering Radu Mardarescu.
The real production of automobiles in Romania start s with the factory Dacia from Colibas witch debuts
with Dacia 1100, the auto market being comleted by production facilities from Campulung Muscel,
Timisoara and Craiova.
Dacia Logan was the best-sold car from the Centre a nd Eastern Europe, in the third trimester, where it has
24 000 buyers on a market with a total of 350 000 a uto vehicles; conform to a study of JATO Dynamics,
taken by Newsin. Logan with 24 171 sold units is be tter then Skoda Fabia (witch sold 17 641 units) and
Skoda Octavia (witch sold 16 015 units). Top five o f the best-sold cars in Center and Estern Europe is
closed by Opel Astra, with 8 492 units, and by Ford Focus with 8116 units. (www.tmctv.ro)
Conform to a study made by Jato Dynamics; the numbe r of new automobiles sold on Romanian Market in
the first nine months of the year has put Romania o n the first position of automobile market from East ern
and Central Europe. In the next positions are Polan d with 217 412 sold cars in the nine month, in grow
with 24% as the similar period of 2006, and Hungary with 128 958 sold units, in descending with 5.9%,
conform to the dates of research company.
At the level of all region, the seals of new auto-v ehicles grow in the period of January-September wit h 14%
to 981 052 units. In the third trimester Romania is in the leading of the classification of Central an d Eastern
Europe with a lead of 20.5% of new auto-mobile sel ls, compared to the same period of 2006 at 82 585
units.
The most sold model in region was Dacia Logan, with 76 924 units sold in the first nine months, in reg ress
with 5.1%for the same period of the last year. Loga n was followed by Skoda Fabia with 58 920 sold unit s
(-14%), Scoda Octavia, with 49.510 units (+5.9%), O pel Astra with 24797 units (22%) and Ford Focus,
with 23 036 units (+20.1%) (www.informatiiauto.ro) .
At the level of year 2007 the automobile sales on R omanian market has grow with 23% toward the level o f
2006, reaching a level of 351 000 units according t o the dates from APIA, the highest sells were made by
Dacia with approximately 95 00 automobiles. The tra de turn over of auto industry from Romania, in the
year of 2007 (the two local manufacturers and compo nents manufacturers) has reach a level of 7.2 billi ons
euro, in grow with 28.5% (from 5.6 billions euro in 2006). The market leader was Dacia with 93.666
registered automobile, followed by Renault, with 28 .824, and on the third place was Volkswagen plus
Skoda, at almost equality, 23.824, respective 23.18 7 automobiles.

1090 The second platoon is constituted by Opel, in a rap id grow, with 18.743 units, Ford with 163573 and
Daewoo. From the total sold automobiles, 137.978 ha d diesel engines and 177.643 had petrol engines.
Renault brand had a market share of 9.3%, Opel 6.1% , Ford 5.55%.
Peugeot Brand has a total of 13.682 registered auto mobiles in the year of 2007, being catch up from be hind
by Chevrolet and Hyundai, one of the 2007 year reve lations, followed by two other brands Fiat and Toyo ta
with approximat00 e 10.0 registered automobiles.
Toyota Romania had reported sells of 10.458 units o f Toyota and Lexus, in grow with almost 70 % faced
to the precedent year. From the total of sold cars in 2007 10.301 were Toyota (with a grow of 67% face d
2006), and 157 Lexus units, for the Lexus brand the grow was almost 200%. The best sold units were Yar is
(2.341 units), Avensis (1.968 units) and Corolla (1 .835 units). Toyota Auris had registered sales of 1 .167
units.
Renault had commercialized in 2007 on Romanian mark et 32.200 units with 37% more then last year,
more than 29.000 from that units were automobiles. Megane had known the most spectacular grow,
reaching more than 11.800 units, with 73% more then 2006. Symbol remains the leader of import
classification with more than 13.400 sold units, wi th a grow of 16.7% more than last year. A grow of
48.9% had registered Clio III with mot than 2.700 units.
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