The two-wheeler market closes 2025 at -7.5% but the scooter segment grows

It is three times worse than the car market, but it is the motorbike segment that suffers most, while the scooter segment continues to grow. Moped registrations will end 2025 with 7.5 per cent fewer registrations overall, as reported by Ancma, the National Association for the Bicycle, Motorcycle and Accessory Industry in Confindustria. While scooters register a strong growth performance, motorbikes are slowing down, as they are affected by the Euro 5+ effect, i.e. the compulsory changeover to the new engine, which has swelled volumes in the last quarter of 2024.

"2025 delivers a two-speed Italian market for powered two-wheelers," notes the Ancma press release, which compares the growth in volumes in the scooter segment, +5.5% over 2024, and the strong contraction recorded by motorbikes, which close the year with a 19.2% drop. Overall, the market for mopeds, scooters and motorbikes declined by 7.5% over 2024. If a comparison is made with 2023, however - a year free of distorting effects as pointed out by Ancma - the balance is +2.2% positive overall, again with scooters making strong progress (+13.5%) and motorbikes instead still in negative territory (-7.5%).

"On 2025," explains Ancma president Mariano Roman, "the effects of the surplus of end-of-series registrations recorded at the end of 2024, linked to the entry into force of the Euro 5+ standard, have had a significant impact. However, the drop in motorbikes seems less attributable to an episodic phenomenon: it will be necessary to carefully investigate its dynamics and causes". The success of scooters, points out Chairman Roman, 'also demonstrates how these vehicles today represent a concrete, usable and efficient response to the needs of sustainable urban mobility'.

The year 2025 closed with 345,287 registered vehicles. In detail, mopeds lost almost a third of the market (-31.9%) with 13,764 units, scooters remained the real driver of demand, closing with 197,043, and motorbikes slowed down for the second year in a row, with a drop to 134,480 registered units. In this context, registrations of electric two-wheelers also fell, with a drop of 15.8% and 8,561 vehicles registered. Electric mopeds, down 27.22% (2,994 units), were the hardest hit, while electric scooters fell by 13.9% to 4,850 units.

There was also a minus sign for the quadricycle market, which closed the year with a drop of 16.9% and 16,964 vehicles sold. An analysis by fuel, however, shows a clear divergence: thermal engine models, penalised by end-of-series dynamics, halved their volumes (-46%, 3,854 units), while electric quadricycles managed to contain their losses (-1.3%, 13,110 units) also thanks to the incentives activated last spring.