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

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

MCIA has today published the new vehicle registrations for the month of October 2025. 

This includes Mopeds, Scooters, Motorcycles and some other specific sectors of the wider L-Category vehicle types.

The market continues to improve compared to earlier in the year, with October closing at -9% and year-to-date performance of -14.7%. The Scooter sector ended the month at only -1.1%. We expect the final quarter of 2025 will experience significant variations versus the previous year, due to market distortions experienced in the final few months of 2024. The underlying trend is improving, and optimism for 2026 remains high.

Tony Campbell, CEO of MCIA, said: “October continues to recover from earlier in the year but has a way to go. Having just returned from EICMA (Milan, Italy), the largest European trade show for our sector, it is extremely encouraging to see the array of new models launched by all manufacturers; witnessed and  enjoyed by an enormous and growing audience.

We are now just a week away from our own (and UK’s largest) Scooter and Motorcycle Show (MCL) which takes place at the NEC (15th – 23rd November), where most of these new models will be on show for the first time here in the UK.  

Looking ahead to the budget later this month, we hope the Chancellor will fully consider the failure of her current economic policies in growing the economy. We strongly urge careful consideration to be taken, to ensure measures and tax policies are introduced which encourage consumer confidence and economic growth, and not cause further damage” 

More details on the October and year to date 2025 registration figures can be found here.

Please credit MCIA when quoting this information.

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Notes for Editors:

MCIA is the body that represents the UK L-Category vehicle industry. L-Category vehicles can be defined as motorised lightweight scooters, motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles, typically with zero or low-emission power.
 
Within regulation they are defined as ‘L-Category’ vehicles (Regulation 168/2013) and are a great solution to the congestion and air quality challenges we all face. They are also sometimes referred to as powered light vehicles (PLV).

For more information about the work of MCIA and L-Category vehicles, or to interview MCIA’s CEO, Tony Campbell, please contact Siobhan Kirk at s.kirk@mcia.co.uk.