Despite closing out 2014 new motorcycle registrations with +10.8 percent growth for the full year, making for a fourth consecutive year of growth for the German market, 2015 has opened up less positively.
New motorcycle registrations in January were down by -13.71 percent (2,354 units) and down by -11.28 percent in February (5,976 units, down from 6,736 in February 2014), meaning that on a year-to-date basis the German market has seen new motorcycle registrations come down by 11.98 percent to 8,330 units (9.464 units in the first two months of 2014).
This is still dramatically higher than the 6,225 units registered in the first two months of 2013 though, so it is to be hoped that this is either some kind of statistical anomaly, or that that there are short-term specific factors at play such as timings or weather.
The picture is similar in total PTM registrations terms - January was down by -13.38 percent (3,419 units) and February was down by -12.94 percent (7,945 units). However, as with motorcycle registrations, February 2015 is still ahead of February 2013.
