International Dealer News IDN 118 Apr/May 2014 | Page 17
STAT ZONE
German market motorcycle registrations
up over 50% for first two months of 2014
TOTAL PTWs
MOTORCYCLES
6,748
4,292
5,983
2,728
1,933
3,947
TOTAL PTWs
TOTA PTW
AL
MOTORCYCLES
FEBRUARY
JANUARY
Italian PTW registrations up
for first time in 18 months
ITALY JANUARY, FEBRUARY 2014
10,000
2014
2013
total PTW registrations were down by 25.5 percent (153,853 units), compared to
2012, which itself saw a decline of -19.04
percent on the previous year (306,522
units compared to the 255,102
registrations seen in 2011).
As elsewhere in Europe, the largest
months for sales in Italy are traditionally
March, April, May and June, and with
the peak sales period already well
underway, industry analysts are
hoping that March doesn’t see a
repeat of the -47.6 percent collapse in
sales seen in March 2013.
8,000
6,000
UNITS
FOR the first time in 18 months, and only
the third time since January 2012, total PTW
registrations in Italy were up by +10.3
percent in February 2014 at 9,670 units,
according to figures released by the Italian
motorcycle trade association ANCMA.
After a disappointing January (-8
percent / 8,620 units), this
means that the Italian market
is up for the two months of
the year to date by 0.8
percent over the same period
last year, at 18,290 units.
For the full 12 months of 2013,
4,000
2,000
TOTAL PTW
L PTWs
Ws
TOTAL PTW
L PTWs
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JANUARY
FEBRUARY
UK market hit by bad weather in February
association P