STAT ZONE
Motorcycle registrations in Spain-20.80 percent for January / February 2017
The predictably misleading new registrations data for the first months of 2017 has emerged from Europe’ s trade associations – thanks to the rush to pre-register unsold Euro 3 models before the December 31st deadline rendered them obsolete. According to the latest data available from ANESDOR, the motorcycle industry trade association in Spain, new motorcycle registrations for the period January to February 2017 were down by-20.80 percent at 14,006 units( 17,684 in 2016), but that makes no allowance for the several thousand of pre-registered Euro 3 bikes that nonetheless have probably found happy buyers and attractive prices – probably boosting the“ official figure” sufficiently to, at worst, make for a flat market, but in all probability for one that has continued to grow. Moped registrations in Spain do not appear to be having equivalent preregistration blues though, with the January and February market there up by + 24.22 percent, albeit on low volume( 2,431 units), leaving the total number of all PTW units newly registered in Spain in the first two months of the year at-16.32 percent, 16,437 units. Honda remains market share leader in Spain, taking 21.1 percent of the motorcycle market there year-to-date( 2,954 units), followed by Yamaha( 13.8 percent), Kymco( 9.1 percent), BMW, Piaggio, Kawasaki, Sym, Suzuki, KTM and Triumph. The top-selling motorcycle remains the Kawasaki Z 900, followed by the Yamaha MT-07. So far in 2017, 73 E-Bikes have been registered, representing 0.5 percent of the motorcycle market. So far in 2017, scooters represent 54
UNITS
12,000
8,000
4,000
Spanish registrations- Feb 2017
10,021
-17.65 %
8,252
Total PTW
percent of sales of vehicles greater than 50cc at 7,584 units YTD; motorcycles of 126 to 750 cc represent 31 percent of the market so far in 2017 at 4,371 units, with 750cc + machines representing 20 percent of sales
9,047
2016 2017
-22.32 %
7,028
MOTORCYCLE
( 2,756 units) YTD. The Spanish market has seen 269 ATV / Quad / UTV models registered YTD, with Polaris the major player( 82 units), followed by CF-Moto and Can- Am.
Japanese made motorcycle exports to Europe + 7.76 percent in January
The latest data released by JAMA( the automotive trade association in Japan, which includes representation of motorcycle manufacturers among its membership) shows exports of 250cc + Japanese made motorcycles to Europe up by + 7.76 percent in January 2017, despite the hangover from Euro 3 pre-registrations( 19,689 units) – the strongest January export figure since 2009. For the full year 2016 exports to Europe were + 18.83 percent at 180,290 units – the best full year performance experienced by the Japanese factories in 20,000 terms of exports to Europe since the 201,000 exported in 15,000 2010, but still a long way south of the 420,000 exported in 10,000 2007 and 461,000 in 2000. Exports to U. S. A. were
5,000
-12.22 percent in January at 5,008 units, the lowest January number since compatible records
UNITS are available. Global Japanese made motorcycle exports were essentially flat overall for January at + 0.6 percent( 30,473 units). Japanese manufactured total PTW exports to Europe were also up in January at + 9.23 percent( 20,586 units) – also the best January performance since 2009. To the U. S. A total PTW exports were-23.43 percent at 8,138 units and-4.37 percent globally at 38,002 units. Total worldwide Japanese
Japanese Exports to Europe- Jan 2017
18,846
+ 9.23 %
20,586
TOTAL PTW
18,271
2016
MOTORCYCLE
manufactured PTW exports were + 2.61 percent for the full year 2016 at 428,619 units – their second lowest in the 21st century, having appeared to have bottomed out at 417,000 in 2015; they peaked at 1.641m units in 2000. The increasing number of units being made by the Japanese manufacturers elsewhere in Asia, the US and South / Central America goes some way to explaining the data, though the
+ 7.76 %
19,689
2017
UNITS
20,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
majority of higher value larger displacement Japanese brand machines, especially those being sold in Europe, are still made in Japan. Their overseas factories are primarily engaged in making and selling scooters and smaller capacity units in ' emerging ' markets( where import tariffs are high) and in making ATV / UTV units- especially in the United States, where demand for such machines is strongest.
Japanese Exports to the US- Jan 2017
10,629
-23.43 %
8,139
TOTAL LPTW
5,705
2016
-12.22 %
5,008
MOTORCYCLE
2017
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