According to the latest data available from ANESDOR, the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain, new motorcycle registrations in May were +3.43 percent (up from the -14.71 percent seen in April) at 14,424 units. For the first five months of 2017 the market is -5.8 percent (60,061 units).
In moped terms May was +6.87 percent (+15.67 percent in April) at 1,618 units; for the year-to-date moped sales in Spain are +19.0 percent (7,138 units).
General Secretary of ANESDOR Jose Maria Riano has welcomed the growth saying that “after a slow start to the year, one influenced by the same Euro 3 effect seen elsewhere in Europe, the motorcycle and wider powered two-wheeler and light vehicles markets in Spain are showing healthy growth again.”
ANESDOR say that sales of mid-displacement motorcycles by +14 percent in May with 5,500 units registered, representing 38 percent of total PTW sales. Scooters were down a little in May (-0.7 percent) compared to May 2016 with 8,619 units sold – some 60 percent of the total PTW market in Spain.
Riano has again pointed to the age of the motorcycle fleet (“park”) in Spain (at an average of 14.7 years old) and called on the government to start incentivising replacement of older machines with new models through fiscal reform initiatives.
To mark World Environment Day (June 5, 2017) ANESDOR released data concerning e-bikes in Spain, saying that so far this year ( to May 31st) 1,099 two-wheel electric vehicles (motorcycles and mopeds) had been registered, which is up by +66 percent on the first five months of 2016.
