According to the latest data released by MotoSuisse, the motorcycle industry trade association in Switzerland, motorcycle registrations there in September were +5.81 percent (1,474 units), having been +21.89 percent (1,480 units) in August; +17.37 percent for the first nine months of the year (25,326 units).
In total PTW terms the Swiss market is +20.84 percent (4,123 units); +12.85 percent in August (3,513 units) and is running at +9.75 percent for the year to September 30th 2015 (44,351 units).
Yamaha is market leader in total PTW terms, having sold 9,427 units (compared to 7,650 in 2014), with Honda second (5,789 units) and BMW third (3,735 units), followed by Vespa and Harley-Davidson.
In motorcycle terms Yamaha has the largest market share in Switzerland so far this year (4,747 units), followed by BMW, Harley-Davidson, Kawasaki and Honda.
The top-selling models so far in 2015 are Yamaha's MT-07 and MT-09, followed by BMW’s R 1200 GS, the Ducati Scrambler and the MT-09 Tracer.
The fastest growing sector of the Swiss motorcycle market in displacement terms is the 251-500cc power-band, which is up by +51.28 percent for the year-to-date, followed by the 751-1000cc market, which is up by +34.66 percent for the year-to-date.
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