International Dealer News IDN 143 June/July 2018 | Page 7

STAT ZONE
Spain: motorcycle registrations
+21.65 percent through April
Spanish registrations - January-April 2018
2017
2018
60,000
+16.72%
+21.65%
45,000
15,000
30,000
by 11.57 percent in April at
14,204 units and +16.72 percent
YTD at 48,618 units.
Honda is the year-to-date market
share leader at 19.8 percent,
8,758 units (2,629 units in
April/19.8 percent share), with
Yamaha second (16.5
percent/7,303 units), KYMCO
third (9.4 percent/4,181 units,
11.2 percent), followed by
Piaggio, BMW, Kawasaki, Sym,
KTM, Suzuki and Peugeot.
The top-seller was Honda’s SH
125, followed by the KYMCO
Agility City 125 and Honda PCX
125; the best-selling motorcycle
was Yamaha’s MT-07 (1,105 units
YTD).
According to the latest data
available from ANESDOR, the
motorcycle industry trade
association in Spain, new
motorcycle registrations for April
were +16.67 percent at 13,295
units and +21.65 percent YTD at
44,296 units.
This is the best April and first
four months market performance
in Spain since before 2009,
although Moped registrations
were -17.53 percent YTD -
thought to be the effects of their
Euro 3/Euro 4 transition, which
was effective January 1, 2018.
However, this hasn’t dragged on
the overall market too much,
with total PTW registrations up
MOTORCYCLE
Total PTW
Swiss PTW registrations
-12.58 percent January-April
For the full year 2017, motorcycle
registrations were up by +2.08 percent
at 26,942 units (-3.4 percent/26,391
units in 2016 af ter being +17 percent
in 2015), with total PTW registrations
broadly flat (-0.89 percent) at 45,487
units in total (-6.21 percent/45,896
units in 2016).
In motorcycle market share terms,
Yamaha continued as market leader for
the first four months of 2018, selling
The latest new registrations data
released by Swiss industry association
MotoSuisse shows total new PTW
registrations up by +1.32 percent in
April (6,276 units) after a disappointing
March (-28.84 percent), but down by
-12.58 percent YTD at 14,422 units.
In motorcycle terms, April was +0.95
percent (4,125 units), but was tracking
at -17.03 percent for the year to April
at 9,063 units YTD.
1,669 motorcycles (2,003 in Jan-April
2017), ahead of Kawasaki (1,183
units), Harley-Davidson (1,077 units),
Honda (1,028) and BMW fifth (1,001
units).
Yamaha’s MT-07 was top seller through
April, followed by Honda’s CRF 1000 L
Africa Twin, the Kawasaki Z900, BMW
R 1200 GS, Kawasaki Z650, Yamaha
MT-09 Tracer, MT-09 SP and Honda CB
500 F.
Germany: motorcycles at -2.46 for Q1 2018
German registrations - January-March 2018
40,000
2017
+1.72%
TOTAL PTW
Germany at 139,831 units
(compared to 172,846 in 2016
and 150,550 in 2015). The
German market bottomed out
10,000
20,000
2018
-2.46%
30,000
After a positive start to 2018
(+22.15 percent for Jan/Feb),
the latest statistics released by
the German motorcycle
industry trade association
(IVM) for the period to the end
of March 2018 show new
motorcycle registrations down
by -2.46 percent for the first
three months of the year at
27,585 units; with March
having been down by -10.83
percent (18,823 units) against
the Euro 3/Euro 4 transition hit
performance of March 2017.
Total PTW registrations for the
first three months of the year
are modestly up by +1.72
percent at 35,889 units.
For the full year 2017, new
registrations in Germany were
-14.21 percent at 100,877
units. Total PTW registrations
were -19.10 percent for 2017 in
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at 122,519 total new PTW
registrations in 2010.
As is usual these days, BMW’s R
1200 GS remains the top
selling model in Germany, with
2,285 units sold so far this
year, with the Kawasaki Z 900
in second place (21,160 units),
the Z650 in third (687 units),
the Honda CRF 1000 Africa
Twin in fourth (674 units),
followed by Yamaha’s MT-07 in
fifth and the BMW S 1000 RR in
sixth spot.
With eight models in the Top 20
bestselling list, it is no surprise
that BMW is motorcycle market
share leader YTD with 7,204
units sold for a 26.12 percent
market share.
Kawasaki is second (3,454
units/12.52 percent share), with
Honda third (2,962 units/10.74
percent share) and KTM fourth
(2,743 units/9.94 percent
share), followed by Harley,
Yamaha, Triumph, Suzuki,
Ducati and Husqvarna.
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