French Motorcycles Market closes the year in high tone due to self registrations related to new emission rules. Total 2-Wheeler sales have been 282.734 (+1.8%), but the effect will be heavy on the start of the 2025, which is projected to be in a single digit red.
French Motorcycles Industry Trend and Perspectives
While the whole European 2-wheeler market is running with a moderate sales increase (like Italy, the biggest one), the French motorcycle market keeps struggling and just the acceleration reported in November and December avoided to close 2024 in red.
However, in the last quarter, mainly in December, the registrations peaked up, due to the need to register all the stock of Euro 5 vehicles, because since January 2025 EU have introduced new emission limits (Euro 5 Plus).
Only for this reason the total 2-Wheeler sales have been 282.734 (+1.8%), but the effect will be heavy on the start of the 2025, which is projected to be in a single digit red.
Both scooter (+0.9%) and motorcycle (+2.3%) segments have recovered at the end, while the electric segment ended up 3.5%
Market Leaders and Performance
Looking at top manufacturer’s performance, Honda maintained its leading position although sales declined 9.1%
Yamaha experienced a slight recovery of 0.3% while in third place BMW is losing 4.6%.
Notably, in fourth and seventh position, Kawasaki and Triumph exhibited substantial growth, with sales surging by 20.7% and 12.0%, respectively.
Others top OEMs performance are mixed, with Peugeot down 2.5%, Piaggio losing deeply (-14.8%), KTM lost 6.2%.


