Market 17 of 23 · release 2026-09-06
The used-car market in Romania
As of 6 September 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Romania is EUR 16,000, at a median odometer reading of 143,000 km, measured across 41,374 live adverts.
- Median asking price
- EUR 16,00015th dearest of 23 markets
- Median odometer
- 143,000 km
- Live adverts
- 41,37417th largest market here
- Powertrains published
- 6
Prices are rounded to the nearest EUR 250 and mileage to 1,000 km, and every figure is a median over live adverts — not over sales.
What is on the market
Every powertrain Romania publishes enough of to clear the disclosure floor, largest first. The share is of the adverts this service holds for Romania, so it describes the forecourt rather than the national fleet.
| Powertrain | Adverts | Share | Median price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diesel | 21,062 | 50.9% | EUR 13,500 |
| Petrol | 13,616 | 32.9% | EUR 16,500 |
| Petrol plug-in hybrid | 3,049 | 7.4% | EUR 31,500 |
| Petrol full hybrid (non plug-in) | 2,066 | 5.0% | EUR 21,250 |
| Electric (BEV) | 1,029 | 2.5% | EUR 30,000 |
| LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) | 533 | 1.3% | EUR 10,750 |
Bringing a car into Romania
What a destination charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is the term that dominates a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it ranges from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date somebody last checked it. Where we have not verified one, this page says so rather than printing a plausible number — an unverified rate and a verified one look identical a month later.
Registration tax
None exactRomania levies no registration tax. The registration authority's own charge table for putting a vehicle on the road has exactly two lines — 49.00 RON for the registration certificate and 20.00 RON for the plate — and names no tax at all. The environmental stamp that used to apply, timbrul de mediu, was repealed and is recorded as no longer in force.
Tarif certificat de inmatriculare
VAT
21% exactStandard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database on 2026-09-06. It is stated here as reference, and no VAT charge is computed anywhere in this service: the rate is not the hard part. A used car bought from a dealer under the margin scheme carries no deductible destination VAT on the price at all, a private sale carries none, and a car that is under six months old or has at or under 6,000 km is a new means of transport and is taxed at this rate on the full price whoever the parties are. Which of those applies is a fact about the transaction, not about the country, and this catalogue does not hold it.
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The caveats below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, which is old enough to clear every age threshold the catalogue models. A newer car can be answered differently, and the record above says on what.
- The registration figure is the tax alone. Plate and administration fees are excluded rather than estimated.
- Transport, plate and administration fees, VAT treatment and customs duty are not modelled anywhere in this service. Nothing on this page is a landed cost.
Where these numbers come from
Romania is one of 23 national markets this service measures daily from public marketplace listings. The published figures are aggregates: a median needs at least 20 adverts behind it, a quartile at least 50, and counts below 500 are published as a band rather than exactly. No advert, seller or individual price is ever published. The full method is here.