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Swiss motorcycle market will decline in 2022 after the previous record year
Töffs remain popular. Slightly fewer two-wheelers were sold on the Swiss motorcycle market in 2022 than in the record previous year. Overall, however, the motor and scooter market has leveled off at a high level, according to the umbrella organization Motosuisse.
Swiss motorcycle market remains at a high level in 2022 (symbol image)
According to the Swiss Agency for Motorcycles and Scooters (SFMR), a little less than 49,000 vehicles were newly registered, which corresponds to a decrease of almost 14 percent compared to 2021. However, this is still a good 17 percent more than in the last year before the pandemic, 2019. And without the global supply and raw material problems among manufacturers, the result would have been even better.
In the motorcycle segment, new registrations fell by more than a fifth in 2022. However, this result is distorted by a regulatory effect. Because of the opening of the class up to 125 cubic centimeters displacement – whose models, which are limited to 15 hp engine power, can be driven by 16-year-old newcomers in Switzerland since January 1, 2021, as in the rest of Europe – the market in this category “literally exploded in the previous year », as Motosuisse puts it.
In 2022, too, new registrations in this category accounted for almost a quarter of all motorcycles. Only in the luxury motorcycle class with more than 1000 cubic centimeters were there more approvals.
According to Motosuisse, the electric age has arrived in the second segment, scooters. The entire scooter market recorded a decline of a good 3 percent compared to 2021 last year. However, the proportion of electrically powered scooters increased to almost 16 percent.
(SDA)