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The automobiles manufactured in Arad was a licensed production of Westinghouse 150 cars from 1909 to 1912. In 1912 the plant was taken over by Austro-Daimler and renamed to MARTA, the acronym for Hungarian Automobile Joint-stock Company Arad (Hungarian: Magyar Automobil Részvény Társaság Arad).
The construction of the first motorway in Romania began in 1967, and the first segment of the A1 motorway, from Pitești to the capital Bucharest was opened in 1972 with a total length of 96 km. During the building of this motorway, a general plan was released in 1969, detailing the building of motorways in the incoming years, however, due to ...
The A11 motorway (Romanian: Autostrada A11) is a partially built motorway in north-western part of Romania, planned to connect the cities of Arad and Oradea.As of January 2022, the only operational segment is a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section from Arad West Interchange to DN7 (Arad North), known as the Arad Bypass (Romanian: Centura Arad).
1937 – Arad was the most important economic center in Transylvania and occupied the fourth position in Romania [citation needed] 1980s – Astra Arad was Europe's largest manufacturer of freight cars. 1989 – Arad was the second town in Romania to rise against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, with considerable violence.
The county's capital, Arad, was the location of Romania's first automotive factory. During the 1920s, Astra cars and commercial vehicles were made at Arad. [8] ASTRA Arad manufactured automobiles from 1922 to 1926. [9] The factory had an output of 2 automobiles per working day as of 1922. [10]
ARO (short for Auto Romania) was a Romanian off-road vehicle manufacturer located in Câmpulung. The first ARO vehicles were produced in 1957, and the last in 2003. For a short while, Daihatsu-powered AROs were sold in Spain and produced in Portugal under the "Portaro" brand. In Italy, AROs were produced and sold under the ACM brand, often ...
Since 1990, several foreign companies, including Mercedes, Audi, Hyundai, Volvo, Toyota, and Peugeot, expressed interest in opening branch plants in Romania. [2] In 2014, the Romanian automotive industry ranks fifth in Central and Eastern Europe, behind that of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland.
Arad County was an administrative unit in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and the Principality of Transylvania. The county was established along the Maros (Mureș) River in the 11th or the 12th century , but its first head, or ispán , was only mentioned in 1214.