September 2025 L-Category (Scooters, Motorcycles, & other light vehicles) New Vehicle Registration
MCIA has today published the new vehicle registrations for the month of September 2025.
This includes Mopeds, Scooters, Motorcycles and some other specific sectors of the wider L-Category vehicle types.
Positive signs for the market in September, as new registrations for the month continue to show improvement over the year-to-date trend. The Scooter segment continues to significantly improve in September closing the month at a positive 1.5%. Some sectors of the Motorcycle registrations also witnessed very positive signs of growth in the month with the Adventure segment up 21% and Road Sport up nearly 8% compared to 2024. Motorcycles combined remained negative albeit vastly improved from the year to date closing the month at just – 3%.
With September closing at an overall market at just -2% compared to 2024, this reduces the year-to-date negative to -15.2% improved from the August year to date of -17.2%.
Tony Campbell, CEO of MCIA, said:
“September has shown some excellent signs of recovery given the challenging year we have seen thus far. 2025 continues to be a tough trading environment for the retailers where consumer confidence remains low and margins are under continual pressure.
Quarter 4 will be crucial for the sector where we hope the much-rumoured tax rises will be avoided in the November budget as this will only cause further harm to the economy.
So far, this Government’s pledge to grow the economy is proving more difficult than they first thought but we are not seeing any signs that taxing their way-out strategy will change.
We will continue to lobby hard on the rider license review and early in 2026 MCIA will be proposing to the Government, a sector specific growth package, designed to encourage the take up of Mopeds and Motorcycles to support the net zero goals”
More details on the September 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.