<\/span><\/h2>\nAfter a difficult period of several quarters of fleet corrections and optimisation, the Rent a Car industry recorded the long-awaited rebound. In the first quarter of 2026, the sector posted its first year-on-year growth in four quarters, at 6.3 percent. This signals market stabilisation. The change reflects growing demand among entrepreneurs for highly flexible mobility solutions that allow them to respond efficiently to the still-changing regulatory and market environment.<\/p>\n
Pawe\u0142 Pi\u00f3rkowski, President of the Management Board of PZWLP, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cAs expected, the beginning of 2026 has brought a clear and long-awaited recovery in the Rent a Car industry. Growth of 6.3 percent year on year closes a difficult period of restructuring vehicle bases. We can clearly see that the improvement in the RaC sector\u2019s results is going hand in hand with the gradual return of the entire Polish economy to a path of stable growth. In the face of regulatory uncertainty, fleet managers and entrepreneurs are looking much more favourably at short-term and medium-term rental services, or STR and MTR, appreciating their flexibility and the absence of long-term financial commitments. Although the pace of the energy transition, the development of mass infrastructure and total cost of ownership remain challenges, the stabilising Rent a Car market is gaining strong operational foundations for the coming months of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
[1] Starting from the first quarter of 2026, PZWLP, in cooperation with IBMR Samar, the partner responsible for collecting and processing reported statistical data, revised the definition and method of presenting the collected statistical data. The revision included new members who have recently joined the association and updated the assumptions behind the definitions of the presented data. The new reporting model reflects today\u2019s market realities and the dynamics of the industry much more accurately. Under the previously used reporting model, the growth rate of the financed active fleet for the period described would have been 9.4 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Polish new passenger car market got off to a very strong start in 2026, continuing the positive purchasing trends seen last year. Despite regulatory challenges, the long-term rental sector, also known as CFM, recorded a sharp increase in its reported fleet, while the Rent a Car sector posted its first growth in a year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2652],"tags":[2767,2909,2688,4651,64,4652,131,4347,2692],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-automotive","tag-element","tag-iran","tag-leasing","tag-pawel-piorkowski","tag-poland","tag-pzwlp","tag-rental-market","tag-samar","tag-sharp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceo.com.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}