The latest data available from Brussels based international motorcycle industry trade association ACEM ( Association des Constructeurs Européens de Motocycles ) show new motorcycle registrations for the ' Big Five ' European motorcycle markets - France , Germany , Italy , Spain and the UK - down by -1.4% ( 781,824 units ) for the first nine months of 2022 . Motorcycle registration volumes declined in Italy ( -3.3%/ 227,400 units ), Germany ( -0.5%/ 173,750 units ) and France ( -7.9%/ 154,660 units ). The other two major markets did better - with Spain (+ 6.2 %/ 135,800 units ) and the UK (+ 3.5 %/ 90,190 units ), both showing an upward trend . The ' Big Five ' account for some 81 % of total European new PTW registrations .In OEM terms , it would appear that a combination of housekeeping , a return to growth in Asia and , in the case of the Japanese manufacturers , beneficial currency fluctuations have resulted in mostly improved fiscals , but unit sales performances back up the |
ACEM data here in Europe . For its first half year , to the end of September 2022 , Honda reported an increase of + 38 % in its consolidated global motorcycle sales revenue ( 1,412.6bn yen ) from Honda Group unit sales of 9.202m (+ 1.03 %) and + 1.27 % ( 6.343m ) in consolidated
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unit sales terms . Consolidated sales revenue in Europe was 93,701m yen , which was down by -17.1m yen on H1 , 2021 . In its motorcycle (" Land Mobility ") business segment , Yamaha reports net sales of 1,085.3bn yen ( an increase of 203.3bn yen or 23.0 % compared with the same period of the previous fiscal year ) and operating income was 66.2bn yen ( an increase of 5.8bn yen or 9.6 %).
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Total global unit sales were 3.588m units for the first nine months of 2022 ( up from 3.460m for the year-ago period ). Domestic Japanese sales were down 7,000 units at 71,000 for the period . Unit sales in Europe were down by 2,000 units at 154,000 , up by 1,000 in North America at 53,000 and up in Asia at 2.879m . In reporting its fiscal results for the first half or its current financial year ( the period from April to September 2022 ), Kawasaki says that demand for its motorcycles in Europe " remains strong despite product shortages " and that , overall , and in common with all the other Japanese manufacturers , the primary motorcycle component supply chain risks it continues to face are the ongoing shortage of semiconductors and raw materials , " but that the logistics disruption is improving ". Overall , Kawasaki motorcycle wholesale for the 6-month period was up by 1,000 units over the 2021 period at 96,000 units in total . In Europe , unit wholesale was down by 8,000 units at 25,000 , while the United
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