The latest data released by the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain (ANESDOR) shows new motorcycle registrations in Spain at + 22.46 percent for August (9,412 units), having been +27.14 percent in July (17,520 units).
For the year to date the market in Spain was +22.71 percent (91,079 units), having been +21.54 percent for the first six months of the year. This is the best August market performance in Spain since 2009, the best YTD figure since 2010 and marks 24 consecutive months of uninterrupted growth, according to ANESDOR.
Moped sales were fractionally down in Spain in August but are +9.37 percent for the year to date (10,729 units). In total PTW terms Spain was +19.06 percent in August and +20.92 percent for the first eight months of the year (at 101,808 units).
Jose Maria Riano, the General Secretary of ANESDOR, says that the current trend points towards 150,000 total PTE registrations being achieved by year end, but that "this figure is far from our goal of [market] sustainability of 250,000 units" and, while acknowledging some examples of progressive PTW-friendly policies at local administration level, he called on the National Government to do more to recognize and promote the economic, environmental and transport benefits offered by PTWs.
