Market reports – Back to school 2012 difficult for the French motorcycle market – Back to school 2012 difficult for the market

Back to school 2012 difficult for the French motorcycle market

Market reports - Back to school 2012 difficult for the French motorcycle market - Back to school 2012 difficult for the market

After a generally satisfactory summer, the motorcycle and scooter market had a difficult comeback: 2,000 registrations were missing compared to last year and sales of 125 were more affected than those of large cubes.. Complete review.

Back to school 2012 difficult for the market

September 2012 was hard for motorcycle and scooter professionals: 12,855 motorcycles (motorized two-wheelers over 50 cc) were registered, while 14,884 had been registered a year earlier (read our).

Some pros – those who have experienced a big drop in their activity – can always put it into perspective by pointing out that the ninth month of this year had only 20 working days, against 22 last year (-9% activity)…

Still, the falls of certain manufacturers cannot be erased by this simple statistical pirouette: this is the case in particular of Daelim, Yamaha, Honda, KTM and Kymco in 125, just like Suzuki, Harley-Davidson and Kawasaki in large displacement..

For the 125 cc (general decrease of -21.2% in September), the 2012 podium is assured for Yamaha, Honda and Piaggio in that order. Behind, on the other hand, the "outsiders" engage in two fierce battles for 5th and 8th place !

On the side of "+ 125 cc" (-7.1%), the game is made for a large number of places in the Top 10 but the end of the year promises to be turbulent at the level of models. We note in passing that four maxiscooters are in the top 15 of the start of the school year and that the biggest selling cube this year in France will be … a scooter !

All the figures, tables, graphs and analyzes of the motorcycle market for September 2012 on the following pages.

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