The latest statistics released by the IVM, the motorcycle industry trade association in Germany, show new motorcycle registrations up by +11.33 percent in May 2016 at 12,650 units for the months, and up by +4.05 percent at 59,705 for the first five months of the year.
These are the best May and first five month sales figures seen in Germany since before 2009.
In total PTW terms the German market was +9.43 percent in May (18,079 units) and is +2.96 percent year-to-date (80,637 units).
The top selling model in Germany in May was BMW’s R 1200 GS (4,141 units), way ahead of Yamaha’s MT07 in second (1,777 units) with Honda’s new CRF 1000 ‘Africa Twin’ third (1,754 units).
Indeed, with five models in the top ten and nine in the top twenty there is no surprise that BMW is market share leader in Germany for the first five months of the year, taking a 17.71 percent share (14,279 year-to-date, +3.73 percent over their 2015 market share for January to May in a total PTW market that is +2.96 percent YTD).
Yamaha is second (10,149 units, 12.59 percent market share YTD), followed by Honda (9,944 units YTD, 12.33 percent market share), KTM, Kawasaki, Harley-Davidson, Piaggio, Suzuki, Ducati and Triumph.
