The Polish Automotive Industry Association represents more than 50 companies in the car, truck and PTW sector, and also publishes industry-relevant statistical data.
Its annual data sets covering motorcycle and scooter registrations show that the market has been consistent over the past five years, and that sales pretty much follow the seasons, peaking in late spring, ready for the summer.
The stats also carefully separate new machines and those that have been imported into the country and registered for the first time there. This import market is an important one, and has been growing each year, to the extent that it now represents more than two thirds of registrations.
In terms of brands, the biggest sellers are familiar producers … Honda, Yamaha, BMW, Suzuki … but there is also a smattering of home-grown brand names taking significant market share. Junak, Romet and Barton – which take historic, and in some cases long dead, Polish motorcycle and scooter brands and revive them using Chinese-sourced underpinnings.