A total of 1,145,940 PTWs were registered during the first twelve months of 2014 in the EU. This represents an increase of 1.8% compared to the 1,125,750 units registered between January and December 2013.
The Spanish, the UK and the German markets performed positively, with registrations increasing by 17.2%, 10.6% and 2.8% respectively. Registrations went down in France and Italy (-1.1% and -1.5% respectively).
A total of 801,600 motorcycles were registered against 747,850 for the first twelve months of 2013. Year-on-year motorcycle registrations increased in key European markets including Spain (+20.6%), UK (+12.2%), Germany (+9.1%), France (+3.5%), and Italy (+1.5%).
Moped registrations continued to decrease. Between January and December 2014, a total of 344,300 mopeds were registered in the EU, whilst 377,900 had been registered in the same period of 2013. This represents a decrease of 8.9%. Registrations fell by 1.3% in the UK, 3.7% in Spain, 7.4% in France, 15.5% in Italy and 17.3% in Germany.
