German motorcycle sales up
New PTW registrations in Germany were up by 12.64 percent in December 2013 (2,005 units) and for the year as a whole, registrations were up 1.31 percent at 129,357 registered, compared to 127,680 in 2012.
Within that figure, motorcycle registrations were up 19.51 percent in December 2013 (1,274 units registered compared to 1,066 for December 2012).
This resulted in total motorcycle registrations for the full year of 2013 being up 2.65 percent (87,423 units, from 85,169 in 2012).
This marks the fourth consecutive year of modest growth for new motorcycle registrations in Germany, and the market has now climbed to about the 86,305 figure seen in 2009.
In total PTW new unit registrations, the German market has also now seen a further consecutive year of (modest) overall growth - the 2014 benchmark for the IVM, the German Motorcycle Industry Association, will be to sustain this growth into a fifth straight year, and see if the trend can be accelerated sufficiently to reach the 137,045 registrations seen in 2009 (2008 saw 166,282 total PTW registered in Germany).
