The 23rd largest of 23 markets measured · figures dated 1 November 2026
The used-car market in Romania
As of 1 November 2026, the median asking price of a used car advertised in Romania is EUR 20,000, at a median odometer reading of 118,000 km, measured across 16,948 live adverts.
- Median asking price
- EUR 20,0007th dearest of 23 markets
- Median odometer
- 118,000 km
- Live adverts
- 16,94823rd largest market here
- Powertrains published
- 7
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 with enough adverts in Romania to publish, largest first. Groups too small to publish are not shown; how the thresholds work. 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 | 7,501 | 44.3% | EUR 16,500 |
| Petrol | 6,305 | 37.3% | EUR 20,000 |
| Petrol plug-in hybrid | 1,561 | 9.2% | EUR 33,000 |
| Petrol full hybrid (non plug-in) | 911 | 5.4% | EUR 22,500 |
| Electric (BEV) | 400–410 | 2.4% | EUR 35,500 |
| LPG (incl. petrol/LPG bi-fuel) | 140–150 | 0.8% | EUR 12,000 |
| Petrol hybrid, plug-in status unknown | 100–110 | 0.6% | EUR 119,000 |
Bringing a car into Romania
What a country charges to put a foreign car on its own plates is usually the largest term in a cross-border comparison: on one identical EUR 15,000 car it runs from about EUR 33 to about EUR 16,000 across Europe. Every figure below carries the document it came from and the date it was last checked. Where we have not verified one, this page says so instead of printing a number.
Registration tax
None VerifiedRomania 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 The environmental stamp that used to apply, timbrul de mediu, was repealed and is recorded as no longer in force.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% VerifiedStandard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database. Shown for reference only. Whether VAT is actually due on a used car depends on the transaction rather than on the country, so no VAT charge is calculated anywhere in this service; the cases are set out in the method.
Read from this record in the source database, shown exactly as it was returned:
RO STANDARD DEFAULT 21.0 2026-07-01+02:00
The limits below are the ones that attach to a worked example: a car first registered in 2019, old enough that no age-based exemption changes the answer. A newer car can be answered differently, and the records above say 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 included 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.