February 2025 L-Category (Scooters, Motorcycles & other light vehicles) New Vehicle Registrations

MCIA has today published the new vehicle market data for the month of February 2025, this includes Mopeds, Scooters, Motorcycles and other L-Category vehicle segments.   

New registrations for February continued at a similar level of decline compared to January at -32.3% . Whilst the market appears to be in distress, our forecast for Q1 was expecting a significant drop compared to 2024 owing to heavy pre-registration activity that took place in the final quarter of 2024. This resulted in circa 8,000 units of registered stock that needs to wash through the system ahead of the new season.

Tony Campbell, CEO of MCIA, said: “We fully expected the market drop to continue through this quarter and will continue to monitor closely. As we move into the new season, a stronger March and Spring will be critical if the year is to fully recover.  As I have stressed previously, the current economic policies introduced by this Government in October have only harmed consumer confidence and increased costs on businesses, the recent “long term” announcements will do little or nothing to change the short / medium term prospects. As some of these policies take hold from April onwards we can only hope the Chancellor recognises that the “so called” pro-growth strategy is failing to deliver.    

MCIA held its annual Industry conference on Tuesday 18th February in London, where we hosted many senior Government officials along with over 200 guests from our member companies. The event was a great success delivering key speeches and presentations highlighting the challenges and opportunities as we look ahead. MCIA will continue to push the new administration to support our sector, starting with a full scale licence review which is desperately needed”  

More details on February registration figures can be found here.

Please credit MCIA when quoting this information.