European PTW registrations +1.4 percent, Jan-Nov 2014Although several of the major Western and Southern European motorcycle industry trade associations are already able to report their full year 2014 new motorcycle registrations data, the task that Brussels-based international motorcycle industry trade association ACEM face in providing a pan-European statistical overview is a more complex and time-consuming one.
Their latest data released on 19th January brings together new motorcycle registration information from most of the European markets that ACEM covers (with the exception at that time of Bulgaria, Cyprus and Malta) for the 11 months of 2014 up to and including November.
A total of 1,103,300 PTWs were registered during the first eleven months of 2014 in the EU. This represents an increase of 1.4 percent compared to the 1,087,600 units registered between January and November 2013. The Spanish, the UK and the German markets performed positively, with registrations increasing by 16.6 percent, 10.5 percent and 2.3 percent respectively. Registrations went down in France and Italy (-1.2 percent and -1.7 percent respectively).
Between January and November 2014, motorcycle registrations grew by 6.9 percent compared to the same period in the previous year. A total of 774,100 motorcycles were registered, compared to 724,000 for the first eleven months of 2013. Year-on-year motorcycle registrations increased in key European markets including Spain (+20.2 percent), UK (+12.1 percent), Germany (+8.4 percent), France (+3.5 percent) and Italy (+1.3 percent).
Moped registrations continued to decrease. Between January and November 2014, a total of 329,200 mopeds were registered in the EU, compared to the 363,500 registered in the same period of 2013, a decrease of 9.4 percent. Registrations fell by 1.6 percent in the UK, 5.5 percent in Spain, 8.1 percent in France, 15.6 percent in Italy and 16.9 percent in Germany.
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