International Dealer News IDN 113 July 2013 | Página 8

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UK motorcycle sales up in May
AT 4.09 percent (8,821 units) motorcycle sales in the United Kingdom were up compared to the same month of last year for the first time in 2013. Year to date motorcycle sales (for the first five months of 2013 versus 2012) are still down though, at -5.39 percent. Total PTW sales in May were up fractionally over May 2012 with 0.55 percent growth (9,711 units), though for the five months of the year to date, while the rate of decline appears to be slowing somewhat, the market is still down by -7.51 percent (38, 279 units). As elsewhere in Europe, dealers and manufacturers in the UK will be hoping that poor weather is the primary explanation for market decline, but with March, April and May accounting for such a high percentage of annual sales in the UK, clearly the damage, especially to dealers who are now carrying excess unsold inventory, will already have been done.

UK, YEAR TO DATE
50,000
2013 2012

UK: May
11.000
MAY 2013 MAY 2012

-7.51 -5.39%

40,000

10.000

+0.55%
30,000
UNITS

UNITS

+4.09%

36,159

34,211

8.000

8,474

8,821

10,000

7.000
MOTORCYCLE MOTORCYCLES YCLE ES TOTAL PT PTWS TWS LARGE MOTORCY MOTORCYCLES O YCLES TOTAL PTWS LP

German motorcycle sales improve in May
FOLLOWING a massive 26.61 percent increase in year on year motorcycle sales in April, it looks like some of the sales lost earlier this year (in March especially) have now been recovered in Germany, with sales up by 4.21 percent in May (11, 601 units versus 11,132 in May 2012). This means that for both April and May, motorcycle sales in Germany have been higher than in the same months since 2008, and that for the five months of the year to date motorcycle sales are up by 1.04 percent, at 50,541 units – the best seen since 2008 (50,837). In total PTW sales terms, May was up 2.84 percent (following a 19.75 percent increase in April) meaning that for the five months of the year to date, total PTW are lagging behind the same period of last year by only -1.99 percent (69,626 units). Clear evidence that the protracted poor weather has delayed sales, dealers and manufacturers in Germany will be hoping that underlying demand for motorcycles and small cc machines will continue to improve (assuming reasonable in the months ahead) and that 2013 as a whole could yet show some (if modest) improvement on the 127, 680 total PTW sales seen in Germany in 2012.

GERMANY, YEAR TO DATE
80,000
2013 2012

GERMANY: MAY
25.000
MAY 2013 MAY 2012

-1.99%

70,000

20.000

60,000

UNITS

+1.04%
50,000

15.000

16,559

17,029

50,019

+4.21%

5.000
MOTORCYC MOTORCYCLES Y YCLES TOTAL PTWS P

11,132

10.000

11,601

40,000

30,000
LARGE MOTOR MOTORCYCLES T RCYCLES TOTAL PTWS LP

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INTERNATIONAL DEALER NEWS - JULY 2013

50,541

69,626

UNITS

+2.84%

71,040

38.279

9,658

9,711

9.000

20,000

41,85