Car manufacturer Dacia was founded in which European country?

Automobile Dacia S.A., commonly known as Dacia, is a Romanian car manufacturer that takes its name from the historic region that constitutes the present-day Romania. The company was established in 1966. In 1999, after 33 years, the Romanian government sold Dacia to the French car manufacturer Groupe Renault. It is Romania's largest company by revenue and the largest exporter, constituting 8% of the country's total exports in 2018. In 2019, the company sold 736,654 passenger and commercial vehicles. From January 2021 onwards the Dacia company became part of Renault's Dacia-Lada business unit.

The first facility in the area was built between 1942 and 1945, as an extension of the Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) aircraft manufacturer. The new factory, built in the Colibași-Pitești area under the order of Marshal Ion Antonescu (Conducător of Romania during World War II), was scheduled to produce up to 600 aircraft engines per month. The building work was completed in 1945. After the war, the facility was taken over by the Romanian Railways, later generating the Dacia plants.