Market reports – Motorcycle and scooter market in France: the 2015 annual report – Happy holidays for the motorcycle market

Motorcycle and scooter market in France: the 2015 annual report

Market reports - Motorcycle and scooter market in France: the 2015 annual report - Happy holidays for the motorcycle market

The motorcycle market stabilized in 2015 with a total of 141,123 motorcycles and scooters over 50 cc registered in France, which represents a slight increase of + 1.2%. Figures, graphs and analysis: the complete annual review of Site.

Happy Holidays for the Motorcycle Market

After a funny month of, December concludes in an encouraging way a year 2015 marked by a hesitant start to the year, a flourishing spring and summer in the 125 sector but much more contrasted for the big cubes, a dark red month. , almost black – and last two months positive (read our .

The French motorcycle market was even particularly spoiled during the end-of-year celebrations: 7217 motorcycles and scooters "over 50 cc" were registered by our fellow citizens deposited at the foot of the tree by little Santa Claus! This is exactly 1,055 more than last year, a remarkable increase of + 17.1% (reread our).

Note that this twelfth month 2015 did not use tricks to achieve this fine performance since it had the same number of working days as in (22). Customers even had one day less to shop (21 days when concessions were open compared to 22).

From a weather point of view, however, the motorcycle and scooter market has benefited from a serious boost: "the year 2015 ends with the hottest month of December on record in France since 1900, with average temperatures exceeding the normal of 3.9 ° C.", calculated the experts.

Meteo France even estimates that "spring temperatures, higher than the usual values ​​for a month of March, were measured regularly in the heart of December". What confuse bikers who were about to hibernate…

Although difficult to quantify, the holding at the beginning of December Porte de Versailles was also able to trigger purchases, both in practical scooters or motorcycles 125 to face everyday life (+ 18.6%) and in larger engine sizes ideal for them. escape (+ 16.4%).

Details and explanations of the evolution of the French motorcycle market over the whole of 2015 are available for our customers and as a one-off purchase on the following pages: good reading !

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