A total of 964,000 powered two wheelers (PTWs) were registered during the first nine months of 2014 in the EU. This represents an increase of 0.41% compared with the 960,060 units registered between January and September 2013. Registrations in the motorcycle segment grew by 6.3%, whilst moped registrations fell by 11.4%.
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A total of 964,000 PTWs were registered during the first nine months of 2014 in the EU. This represents an increase of 0.41% compared to the 960,060 units registered between January and September 2013.
The Spanish and the UK market performed positively, with registrations increasing by 16.7% and 10.5% respectively. Registrations increased sligthly in Germany (2.1%), but went down in France and Italy (-1.2% and -1.5% respectively) Between January and September 2014, the motorcycle segment grew by 6.3% compared to the same period in the previous year.
A total of 681,600 motorcycles were registered against 641,400 for the first nine months of 2013.
Between January and September 2014, a total of 282,360 mopeds were registered in the EU, whilst 318,600 had been registered in the same period of 2013. The full statistical report is available here.