A total of 901,552 powered-two and three-wheelers were registered during the first eight months of 2015 in the EU, a 4.2% increase compared to the same period in 2014.
France remained the largest market, despite the 2.5% year-on-year decrease in registrations, with 173,711 units sold. In Italy registrations rose by 5.7% to 151,374 units, while in Germany registrations grew by 0.8% to 145,257 units. UK registrations grew by 13.3% to 80,639, while in Spain registrations rose by 20.4% to 102,358.
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Motorcycle registrations
Cumulative motorcycle registrations grew by 10.2% year-on-year during the first eight months of 2015. A total of 676,842 motorcycles were registered between January and August 2015, against 613,945 during the same period of 2014.
Year-on-year motorcycle registrations increased in all key European markets, namely Spain (91,683 units, +22%), the UK (74,527 units, +15.9%), Italy (133,588 units, +9.1%), Germany (127,196 units, +7.3%), and France (114,396 units, +0.9%).
Moped registrations
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By GlobalDataA total of 224,710 mopeds were registered during the first eight months of 2015 in the EU, whilst 251,619 mopeds had been registered during the same period of 2014. This represents a decrease of 10.7%.
Registrations increased in Spain (10,675, + 8.0%), although they decreased in France (59,315 units, -8.6%), the UK (6,112 units, -11.3%), Italy (17,786 units, -14.3%) and Germany (18,061 units, -29.4%).
