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Motorcycle and scooter manufacturers expect a globally stable 2017 market

Business - Motorcycle and scooter manufacturers expect a globally stable market in 2017 -

Gathered this morning in Paris for the traditional press briefing of the International Chamber of Automobile and Motorcycle Syndicates (CSIAM), the main motorcycle and scooter manufacturers have hypothesized a generally stable 2017 market, with motorcycles intended for A2 licenses which will become a separate category and a show that remains to be defined in 2018… Debriefing.

Subscribers – who, as everyone knows, are better informed than others! – know since the publication of our that motorcycles and scooters over 50 cc sold well in France in 2016, with an increase of + 7.5% in registrations compared to .

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"For 2017, the social and economic environment remains under tension and the presidential and legislative elections could create a wait-and-see attitude of consumers", predict Thierry Archambault, president-delegate, and Eric de Seynes, president of the Motorcycle branch of the CSIAM by releasing some "underlying market trends" which should last:

  • Low growth or stagnation of the 50 cc segment
  • Increase in registrations for the 125 cc
  • Stabilization or weak growth of more than 125 cc after a particularly dynamic 2016
  • Stability of tricycle and quadricycle volumes

Around 3.5% of registrations linked to Euro4

The start of 2016 was indeed marked by a wait-and-see attitude from large cube customers before the, while the month of December saw a few thousand "artificial" registrations of Euro 3 motorcycles and scooters, which will come out of the dealerships in the coming months weeks on "zero kilometer occasions". This "mechanical" increase in registrations – which according to the manufacturers accounts for "a small half" of the overall increase in the 2016 market – should also be repeated at the end of 2017 with cyclos, which will only switch to Euro4 on January 1, 2018..

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"The 2016 results are totally positive because for the first time since 2011, the market for 50 cc mopeds is also on the rise with a growth of + 2.9% and a total of 92,880 units", further noted MM Archambault. and De Seynes by underlining "the take-off of which is confirmed with a growth of + 193% and a total of 5,672 units, or 6.1% of the moped market". Let us also note "a significant proportion of gearbox mopeds", which is rather a good sign insofar as this type of user is more likely to switch one day to the "real" motorcycle than the "simple" mopeds to. dimmer.

Slight increase in the number of motorcycle licenses in 2016

With + 3.5% motorcycle license in 2016 compared to 2015 (around 100,000 per year), the does not seem to have discouraged new bikers (young or not). "Motorcycles intended for A2 licenses are now tending to constitute a real category of motorcycles in their own right", rejoices Eric de Seynes in particular. "More and more new bikers are turning to mid-size, not 800 bridles but real small motorcycles, light and cute, which cost 5000 euros and are an alternative to used vehicles".

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Motorcycles in A2 version are no longer just "deflated" motorcycles at less than 35 kW (47.5 hp) while waiting to be able to unleash them as quickly as possible, but real motorcycles in their own right favoring access to the world motorcyclist, as were traditionally the medium-displacement 250 to 400 cc. Several brand managers confirm this trend…

At Honda, the general manager of the motorcycle division, Fabrice Recoque, observed in 2016 "a strong acceleration in demand for A2 models, including in low season and in particular on the CB500". At Suzuki, the sales manager, Guillaume Vuillardot, welcomes the success of "the SV650" A2 "whose sales are up 70% compared to the Gladius A2" and at the same time underlines that "5 years ago , the 250 and 300 cc were reserved for Asia. Today, these motorcycles are imported into Europe because the demand is felt ".

An urban mobility solution … at the show !

It now remains to convince the public authorities of the benefits of motorcycles and scooters with a view to urban mobility, a vast project that will probably be one of the pillars of the next … The manufacturers gathered within the CSIAM are currently examining even the proposal of Jean-Claude Girot for AMC Promotion.

Asked by MNC, the general commissioner of the motor show recalls that he was mandated to "work on a motorcycle show which would take place at Le Bourget in March 2018", but that he is also very open to a solution mixed car-motorcycle, with a hall entirely reserved for motorcycles at the next motor show in September 2018 !

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Thus placed more than a month before the main European motorcycle show (EICMA in Milan), the Paris Motorcycle Show could then regain its ambitions of "Mondial de la moto", provided that all manufacturers are playing the game by unveiling world premieres … It’s still far from being won, but as the readers of – who, decidedly, are really better informed than the others! -, most manufacturers say …

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