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ACEM reports European PTW
sales down by over 15 percent
for first 8 months of the year
HE latest motorcycle and
moped registration data
(all L-category vehicles)
released by the Association des
Constructeurs Européens de
Motocycles (ACEM, Brussels)
show total PTW (powered twowheeler) registrations for the
markets the organisation surveys
as down by -15.4 percent for the
eight months to end of August
2013 (880,779 units) compared
to the same period of 2012
(1,041,460 units).
For the year to date, motorcycle
registrations are down by -12.8
percent while moped sales are down
by -20.5 percent.
According to ACEM August (also
down by -15.4 percent) was the third
worst month of the year so far, with
European PTW sales totalling
97,657 units.
In Germany, the IVM (IndustrieVerband Motorrad) reports that the
market there dipped month-onmonth in August for the first time
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since March this year; PTWs were
down by -2.91 percent at 11,761
units (down from 12,114 in August
2012) and motorcycles were down
by -9.82 percent at 6,706 (down
from 7,436 in 2012).
However, after a strong July in which
motorcycle sales were up by 22.94
‘ despite the
decline, Italy
remains Europe’s
largest
motorcycle
market’
percent (at 9,448 units from 7,436 in
2012), and total PTW sales up by 16.32
percent (at 15,105 from 12,986 in July
2012), overall PTW registrations in
Germany for the year to date remain
marginally up at 110,759 (up by +0.77
percent from 109,914 for the first eight
months of 2012).
OCT/NOV 2013
ISSUE #115
Motorcycles sales in Germany for
the year to date were up by +2.59
percent at 76,102 units (up from
74,180 for the first eight months of
2012).
The Italian market continues its
dramatic downward spiral with
motorcycle sales for the first eight
months of this year down by -29.46
percent at 120,373 (from 170,648
units for the first 8 months of 2012),
with month on month sales for
August down by -22.75 percent at
8,614 units (from 11,151 in 2012).
In July, Italian motorcycle
registrations were down -33.04
percent at 20,194 units from
30,160 units in July 2012.
In the United Kingdom, year on
year total PTW sales were down by 5.15 percent for the first 8 months of
the year (-3.37 percent for August
2013).
Motorcycle sales for August were
up by +1.06 percent at 5,620 units,
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