According to the latest data available from ANESDOR, the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain, new motorcycle registrations in April were -17.71 percent (11,198 units), having been +1.70 percent in March (10,986 units). For the first four months of 2017 the market is -13.04 percent (36,190 units).
In moped terms April was +15.67 percent (1,543 units; March was +30 percent at 1,547 units); for the year-to-date moped sales in Spain are +23.21 percent (5,521 units). In total PTW terms April was -11.91 percent (12,741 units; March was +4.51 percent, 12,533 units), with sales for the year-to-date running at -9.51 percent (41,711 percent).
General Secretary of ANESDOR Jose Maria Riano has pointed to Easter and the resulting two fewer selling days in April as making 2016 comparisons difficult, but stated that “we are confident that in the next few months the motorcycle market in Spain will resume the positive trend, once it is over the impact of the change in the European emissions regulations, Euro 4”.
As elsewhere in Europe, the new regulations becoming effective January 1st 2017 resulted in there being a high number of heavily incentivised pre-registered zero mileage Euro 3 units being on showroom floors in the first months of this year and distorting, in reality, the number of “new” machines being bought.
ANESDOR point to an underlying trend that is hidden by the registration statistics with road-going motorcycle sales actually increasing by +3.8 percent in April (4,665 units, 42 percent of April sales); scooters were -23.3 percent (56 percent of sales).
Honda is market share leader in Spain for the first four months of 2016 having sold 7,533 units for a 20.8 percent market share. Yamaha was second with 5,156 units sold for a 14.2 percent share, followed by Kymco 9.8 percent, Piaggio 8.1 percent and BMW 8.8 percent.
