Spain - motorcycles +11.54% for first six months
Marking an improvement is the sales action seen in Spain in March and April this year, the latest data from ANESDOR - the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain - shows that growth for 2022 is firmly established.
New motorcycle registrations in May were +21.87% (19,184 units) and +4.86% in June (19,527 units), with the YTD at +11.54%, 91,453 new units registered. That is the best first six months market performance in Spain in more than a decade.
Moped registrations in Spain were -8.89% YTD at 7,875 units, but total PTWs were running at +9.59% YTD at 99,328 units registered so far.
For the first half of the year, demand for electric powered PTWs was 73.1% up on the first half of 2021, but at 5,251 units, they still only account for 5.7% of new registrations, conventional Internal Combustion Engine machines are still taking 94.3% of available sales.
Honda is market share leader in Spain YTD with a 22.9% share (20,971 units), followed by Yamaha (12.1%), Piaggio (6.7%), Sym (6.6%), with BMW and KYMCO both taking around 6.3% of the market; they are followed by KTM, Kawasaki, Zontes and Benelli. Remarkably, the Sym Symphony 125 is the top seller, ahead of Honda's traditionally all-conquering SH and PCX 125 scooters.
For the record - motorcycle registrations in Spain were +6.26% for the full year in 2021 at 165,115 units. The Spanish market had not yet caught up with 2019 registrations though (175,585 units), but 2021 was the second-best motorcycle and scooter market performance in Spain since before 2009. In total PTW terms, 2021 was +3.26 (182,922 units) - also the second best since before the 2007/2009 financial crisis.
