The latest data from McRF, the Swedish motorcycle industry trade association, shows new motorcycle registrations at -24.35 percent in April at 1,662 units (+28.19 percent in March at 1,596 units) and are running -6.79 percent for the year to date (January to April 2017).
As was the case elsewhere in Europe, there may well have been some Euro 3 inventory pre-registrations in Sweden at the end of last year, but Per Johansson, the CEO of McRF, explains that there were three fewer retail days in April 2017 compared to last year, and that while mild weather probably boosted March sales, April was colder and wetter.
In total PTW terms, April saw 3,255 new machines registered (1,593 mopeds, +2.25 percent, 3,211 YTD) to leave the market about level at 6,987 total units YTD (6,904 in the first four months of 2016); March had been +27.57 percent with 2,665 new PTWs of all kinds registered.
In 2016 Sweden recorded +8.00 percent growth in new motorcycle registrations for the full year at 10,178 units; total PTW registrations were +10.18 percent at 21,347 units in total.
This year’s MC Massan Swedish motorcycle show at Stockholm at the end of January saw strong attendance - in the region of 53,000 visitors. In 2018 the show will return to Gothenburg from January 25 to 28.
