After being -95.85% in April, with just 526 new motorcycles registered in Europe's largest market, the latest new motorcycle registration statistics (for May) available from ANCMA, the motorcycle industry trade association in Italy (the owner of EICMA), make extraordinarily good reading in the context of the year so far!
May motorcycle registrations in Italy were "only" down by -11.35% with 11,150 new models being registered - an exceptionally fast and dramatic response to a process of lockdown easing that really only started in the second week of May.
After the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic started to show dramatically in the March registration numbers (-69.18%, 3,855 units), the year to date market performance in Italy, for motorcycles, has recovered to -40.25% at 31,205 units registered - with at least 15,000 of those registrations coming in January and February, when a good start to 2020 saw January at +3.13% and February at +12.70%.
In total PTW terms (Powered Two-Wheelers), May was -10.35% (25,660 units; -96.98% in April 2020) and is now -38.61% YTD at 67,802 units registered (by May 2019 the YTD in Italy was at +7.39%/110,443 units). Scooter registrations for January to May were -40.25% at 31,205 units.
The top selling motorcycles in Italy YTD have been the BMW R 1250 GS Enduro (1,329 units YTD), followed by the Honda Africa Twin (1,154 units), BMW R 1250 GS Adventure (938 units), Yamaha Tracer 900 (854 units) and the Benelli TRK 502/502X (807 units YTD).
For the record, in 2019 the Italian market was again Europe's largest at +6.26% in motorcycle registration terms (98,883 units) and +5.65% in total PTW terms at 231,937 units.
