The predictably misleading new registrations data for the first months of 2017 has emerged from Europe’s trade associations – thanks to the rush to pre-register unsold Euro 3 models before the December 31st deadline rendered them obsolete.
According to the latest data available from ANESDOR, the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain, new motorcycle registrations for the period January to February 2017 were down by -20.80 percent at 14,006 units (17,684 in 2016), but that makes no allowance for the several thousand of pre-registered Euro 3 bikes that nonetheless have probably found happy buyers and attractive prices – probably boosting the “official figure” sufficiently to, at worst, make for a flat market, but in all probability for one that has continued to grow.
Moped registrations in Spain do not appear to be having equivalent pre-registration blues though, with the January and February market there up by +24.22 percent, albeit on low volume (2,431 units), leaving the total number of all PTW units newly registered in Spain in the first two months of the year at -16.32 percent, 16,437 units.
Honda remains market share leader in Spain, taking 21.1 percent of the motorcycle market there year-to-date (2,954 units), followed by Yamaha (13.8 percent), Kymco (9.1 percent), BMW, Piaggio, Kawasaki, Sym, Suzuki, KTM and Triumph.
The top-selling motorcycle remains the Kawasaki Z 900, followed by the Yamaha MT-07.
So far in 2017, 73 E-Bikes have been registered, representing 0.5 percent of the motorcycle market.
So far in 2017, scooters represent 54 percent of sales of vehicles greater than 50cc at 7,584 units YTD; motorcycles of 126 to 750 cc represent 31 percent of the market so far in 2017 at 4,371 units, with 750cc+ machines representing 20 percent of sales (2,756 units) YTD.
The Spanish market has seen 269 ATV/Quad/UTV models registered YTD, with Polaris the major player (82 units), followed by CF-Moto and Can-Am.
