Harmon Rabb
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We’ve had years of dismal news about dropping new bike sales figures as customers and manufacturers alike tightened their belts during the financial crisis after 2008. But now we seem to be on the rebound.
Finally we’re seeing the result of some serious R&D investment from bike firms, leading to slews of new models and improved technology. Meanwhile low interest rates and slowly improving economic circumstances appear to be giving customers a bit more confidence to splash out on a new bike.
We already know that UK sales are on the up, but are we alone or is the rest of the world following the same trend.
The most up-to-date figures for the whole of Europe show a wide variation. Although the latest figures don’t quite cover the whole year, instead stopping at the end of November, they give a good look at who is improving and who isn’t.
It’s interesting to see that around half the countries monitored by ACEM, the European motorcycle industry group, are still on a downward trend. France – Europe’s biggest market – is down 4.2%, which Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Hungary and Poland among the others to be seeing shrinking sales. The other half including Germany, the UK, Italy, Greece and Spain – among others – are on the up.
Here are the top ten fastest risers.
Sverige på 6:e plats.
Sweden – up 11.6%
A smaller market again, with less than 10,000 registrations per year, but Sweden’s increase overall from 8229 to 9185 (both figures for Jan-Nov, 2014 and 2015) suggests that it could be in five figures soon.
http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-top-10s/top-10-fastest-growing-european-bike-markets/31024.html
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