According to the latest data released by the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain (ANESDOR), the motorcycle market there was up by +11.42 percent in October (12,171 units).
The market in Spain is now running at +10.39 percent for the year-to-date at 126,511 units (the highest for the first 10 months of the year since before 2009).
Moped registrations in October were +16.64 percent (1,521 units) and are +6.15 percent for the first eight months of the year at 14,319 units.
Total PTW registrations were +10.02 percent in October (13,692 units) and are up for 2016 so far by +9.23 percent for the year-to-date (140,828 units in total).
For the year-to-date Honda remains market share leader in Spain, having sold 21,684 units for a 17.1 percent market share, followed by Yamaha (19,183 units, 15.2 percent share) and Kymco (16,980 units, 13.4 percent share).
Scooter sales are up by +5.2 percent so far this year and represent some 64 percent of the total PTW market (80,677 units YTD). Road-going motorcycles are +20.2 percent so far in 2016, accounting for 32 percent of the market (40,954 units), and while off-roaders are +29.9 percent YTD, they only account for 4 percent of total PTW sales (5,140 units YTD).
ANESDOR General Secretary Jose Maria Riano welcomed the continued growth, pointing to this having been the best October since 2009, but warned that with many consumers rushing to get Euro-3 compliant vehicles on the road before the law changes (all new PTWs will have to be Euro-4 compliant for January 1st 2017), it remains to be seen if the growth seen in the second half of the year will sustain into the first months of 2017.
