According to the latest statistics released by the motorcycle industry trade association in Poland (PZPM), the number of new motorcycles registered there was up by +73.90 percent in August (2,172 units) and is now running at +154.28 for the year-to-date (18,865 units).
In total PTW terms August was up by +8.03 percent, but is flat for the year as a whole so far at -0.30 percent.
The statistics for Poland are difficult to compare with elsewhere in the EU. It is a small but fast growing market, one where the number of mopeds sold (or not sold!) has a big impact on the overall PTW picture: -31.60 percent at 2,970 units for August, -31.75 percent at 22,889 units for the year-to-date. It is also a market where the high number of pre-owned motorcycles that are registered for the first time there (imported from Germany and other markets) represents good news for the parts and accessory industry.
However, at the higher value new motorcycles end of the market the growth is statistically impressive. The data collected by ACEM, the Brussels based international motorcycle industry trade association for Europe, shows that Poland was actually the 7th largest market in the EU in 2014 at 9,847 units - only a little less than The Netherlands.
In that context this year's registrations are already well ahead of last year with four more months to go. The pre-owned motorcycles seeing their first registration in Poland so far this year take the total motorcycle count to 66,896 for the year-to-date, which is up by +55.70 percent over the first eight months of 2014; including new and pre-owned mopeds that makes Poland a 99,950 (+14.44 percent) market in terms of new PTWs of all kinds that are new to the roads of Poland in the first eight months of this year.
