Spain: motorcycle registrations +6.39%
The latest data from ANESDOR, the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain, shows new motorcycle registrations declining in September for a fourth consecutive month (-2.60%/15,371 units). As the market in Spain laps sales increases in the year ago months, 2021 has seen a softer summer in Spain with August down by -17.44% (11,364 units); July down by -26.41% (17,524 units) and June by -11.59% (18,622 units).
For the first nine months of 2021, motorcycle registrations in Spain are running at +6.39% (126, 214 units). This compares to 118,637 units for the same period in 2020 and 135, 664 units for the first nine months of 2019 - that was the best market performance for the period in Spain since before the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
At 139,377 units YTD, total PTW registrations for the nine-month period were +3.53%, which is also ahead of 2020 (134,628 units), but behind the same period for 2019 (149,968 units).
Because of its strength in the scooter and >125 cc markets, Honda is market leader, followed by Yamaha, Piaggio (Vespa, Aprilia, Moto Guzzi etc.), Taiwan's Kymco and SYM, followed by BMW, Kawasaki, KTM, Zontes and Keeway.
For the record - full year new motorcycle registrations in Spain were 175,585 units in 2019 (+11.07% over 2018) and (theoretically) -11.50% in 2020 at 155,391 units.
