France sees motorcycle registrations grow in first eight monthsThe French motorcycle and scooter market was up by +1.8 percent for the first eight months of this year (January - August 2015) at 104,173 units.
Street bikes were 51,321 units; scooters 33,910 units; off-road 11,114 units; custom and custom-style production bikes 7,806 units - mostly Harley-Davidson, who sold 5,438 units in France in the first eight months of 2015, for a 5.22 percent share of the French market (though actually -7.04 in unit sales terms year-on-year).
Yamaha is the market share leader with 21,885 units sold (+3.71 percent, 21.01 percent market share), with Honda second at 16,197 units (+5.66 percent, 15.55 percent market share) and BMW third at 9,500 units (+11.88 percent, 9.12 percent market share); followed by Kawasaki at 8,884 units (-4.18 percent, 8.53 percent market share) and Suzuki at 7,471 units (-4.32 percent, 7.17 percent market share).
The top-selling model in France is the Yamaha XP500 T-Max with 4,154 units sold there in the first eight months of the year for a 5.89 percent market share; their MT-09 and MT-07 are second and third, with the Kawasaki Z800 fourth and ER-6 fifth.
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