A total of 1,050,780 PTWs were registered during the first ten months of 2014 in the EU. This represents an increase of 1.26% compared to the 1,037,700 units registered between January and October 2013. The Spanish, the UK and the German market performed positively, with registrations increasing by 16.2%, 10.2% and 2.9% respectively. Registrations went down in Italy and France (-1.1% and -1.3%).

Between January and October 2014, registrations in the motorcycle segment grew by 6.8% compared to the same period in the previous year. A total of 739,150 motorcycles were registered against 692,170 for the first ten months of 2013. Year-on-year motorcycle registrations increased in key European markets including Spain (+19.8%), UK (+11.8%), Germany (+8.1%), France (+3.7%), and Italy (+2.1%).

Moped registrations sales continued to decrease. Between January and October 2014, a total of 311,630 mopeds were registered in the EU, whilst 345,540 had been registered in the same period of 2013. This represents a decrease of 9.8%. Registrations fell by 1.9% in the UK, 5.2% in Spain, 8.3% in France, 14.4% in Germany and 15.8% in Italy.

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