European
Market update:
October 2013 down -14 percent
Brussels
based industry organisation ACEM (Association des Constructeurs Européens de
Motorcycles) says "October ended with a -14.1 percent YTD decline in
Powered Two-Wheeler (PTW) registration in Europe, with motorcycle
registrations indicating stabilisation for the second consecutive month".
"The
rate at which the EU motorcycle market has been dropping since 2008 seems to
have slowed down with sales of L-category vehicles in October contributing to
improvement in the poor performance accumulated during the first months of
2013".
Despite
the yearly trend, motorcycle registrations are showing positive signs of
stabilisation.
In
October PTW sales in Europe totalled 79,368 units up +6.4 percent from October
2012. In the 10 first months of 2013 so far 1,067,746 vehicles were sold,
compared to 1,243,800 in 2012. On average October accounts for 6 percent of
yearly sales.
For
October, motorcycle sales were down -11 percent across Europe as a whole, moped
sales were down -20 percent. Motorcycle registrations were up in Austria (+5%),
Germany (+1.4%) and the UK (+0.4%).
Moped
registrations were down -17.3 percent compared to October 2012.
For
combined moped sales and motorcycles registrations (total PTWs) selected
markets were: France -14.5%, Germany -4.5%, Italy -28.5%, Poland -17.3%, Spain
-9.7%, The Netherlands -13.2%, UK -2.5%. ACEM
say that "all-in-all October shows marginal signs of a slow down in the
negative trend in the context of a generalised market deterioration. However,
increases in motorcycle registrations indicates that a stabilisation for
certain segments might be in sight".
Source:
ACEM Newsletter, December 19th 2013. To sign up to receive ACEM's regular
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