Suzuki has announced that on a Group basis its motorcycle sales in Europe for the third quarter of its current financial year (the period to December 31st 2016) were up by +30.1 percent at 8,000 units (up by 2,000 units over the year-ago quarter).
For the nine months of its financial year so far motorcycle sales in Europe were down by -2.1 percent at 37,000 units, but at just 1,000 units down for the period, its trend is in the right direction and the company should see sales for the full financial year about flat with the year-ago period – meaning that Suzuki will have halted its decline in units sold here.
It has a similar picture in North America, where sales for the third quarter were down by -2 percent at 6,000 units, but it has further to go to get back on an even footing there with sales for the first nine months down by -24 percent, with 25,000 units sold so far (some 8,000 down on the year-ago period).
Globally unit sales (including ATVs) were -1.7 percent at 329,000 for the third quarter and are running at 11.9 percent (1,009,000 units) for the year-to-date.
