New motorcycle sales “stable” in FranceThierry Archambault, Deputy President of French trade association CSIAM, and Eric de Seynes, the Chairman of the CSIAM motorcycle branch, have described new motorcycle registrations in France as “stable” in releasing data for the first four months of 2016.
New motorcycle registrations were 45,188 units for the period January to April 2016, which is marginally down by -0.65 percent compared to the first four months of 2015.
Yamaha was market share leader (8,299 units YTD, 18.37 percent market share), with their MT-07 the best selling model in France so far in 2016 (1,709 units, actually down a little on the first four months of 2015).
Honda took second place (7,051 units for a 15.60 percent market share) with their new CRF 1000 L and D ‘Africa Twins’ entering the market, with a combined 1,120 units sold in the first four months.
BMW was third with a 10.27 percent market share (4,642 units), and their top-seller, the R 1200 GS (770 units), was one of three BMWs on the first 15 best selling list.
Kawasaki was fourth (4,360 units, 9.65 percent market share) with their ER6 and Z800, both selling well (1,107 and 1,101 units respectively).
Piaggio was fifth, followed by Harley-Davidson, Suzuki, KTM, Triumph and Kymco.
