EU motorcycle registrations +10 percent for first eight months of 2015According to the latest Europe-wide data released by ACEM (Association des Constructeurs Européens de Motocycles), the Brussels based international motorcycle industry trade association for Europe, new PTW registrations in EU markets were +4.2 percent to the end of August 2015 (901,552 units).
Registrations were up in Spain (102,358 units, +20.4%), the UK (80,639 units, +13.3%), Italy (151,374 units, +5.7%), and Germany (145,257 units, +0.8%). They decreased in France (173,711 units, -2.5%).
Cumulative motorcycle registrations grew by +10.2% during the first eight months of 2015 on a year-on-year basis. A total of 676,842 motorcycles were registered in EU markets between January and August 2015, against 613,945 during the same period of 2014.
Year-on-year motorcycle registrations increased in all key European markets, namely Spain (91,683 units, +22%), the UK (74,527 units, +15.9%), Italy (133,588 units, +9.1%), Germany (127,196 units, +7.3%), and France (114,396 units, +0.9%).
Motorcycle registrations in Europe's five largest markets (Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the UK) accounted for 88 percent of EU new motorcycle registrations for the first eight months of 2015.
A total of 224,710 mopeds were registered during the first eight months of 2015 in the EU, against 251,619 for the same period of 2014; a decrease of -10.7%.
Moped registrations increased in Spain (10,675, + 8.0%), but were down in France (59,315 units, -8.6%), the UK (6,112 units, -11.3%), Italy (17,786 units, -14.3%) and Germany (18,061 units, -29.4%).
ACEM's 2014 annual data shows total EU motorcycle registrations at 798,328 units (up by some 60,000 units over 2013) and at 842,203 units for EU and EFTA markets combined (also some 60,000 units up on 2013).
ACEM's 2014 annual data shows total EU PTW registrations at 1,099,018 units and at 1,156,569 units for EU and EFTA markets combined (down by some 11,000 units on 2013 in both cases).
ACEM's 2014 annual data shows total EU moped registrations at 340,468 units (down by some 40,000 units compared to 2013) and at 354,044 units for EU and EFTA markets combined (down by some 42,000 units compared to 2013).
ACEM data is generally published some weeks later than the new registration statistics released by the individual major market national trade associations and will differ from those numbers for reasons of timing, compilation and sources used.
ACEM gathers data for as many European markets as possible, including EFTA nations that are outside of their EU reporting (Norway and Switzerland for example), but statistics from some of Europe's smaller EU and EFTA markets (Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Slovakia for example) are not always available within the timescales of their compilation requirements.
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