It is three times worse than the car market but the motorcycle sector is suffering more while the scooter sector continues to grow. Moped registrations closes 2025 with 7.5% fewer registrations overall, as reported by Ancma, the National Cycle and Motorcycle Accessories Association in Confindustria. While scooters are recording a strong growth performance, motorcycles are slowing down, which instead are affected by the Euro 5+ effect, i.e. the mandatory transition to the new engine which inflated the volumes of the last quarter of 2024.
«2025 will deliver a double-speed Italian market to motorized 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 closed the year with a decline of 19.2%. Overall, the moped, scooter and motorcycle market recorded a decline of 7.5% compared to 2024. However, if we make a comparison with 2023 – year without distorting effects as Ancma points out – the balance is overall positive by +2.2%, again with scooters making strong progress (+13.5%) and motorbikes still in negative territory (–7.5%).
«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 on 2025 – explains the president of Ancma, Mariano Roman. However, the decline in motorcycles appears less attributable to an episodic phenomenon: it will be necessary to carefully investigate its dynamics and causes.” The success of the scooters, President Roman further points out, “also demonstrates how these vehicles today represent a concrete, usable and efficient response to the needs of sustainable urban mobility”.
2025 ends with 345,287 vehicles registered. In detail, mopeds lost almost a third of the market (–31.9%) with 13,764 units, scooters confirmed themselves as the real driver of demand, closing with 197,043, 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 decreased, with a decrease of 15.8% and 8,561 vehicles registered. Electric mopeds weigh the most, down by 27.22% (2,994 units), while the contraction for electric scooters is less marked, which lose 13.9% and stand at 4,850 units.
There was also a negative sign for the quadricycle market, which closed the year with a decline of 16.9% and 16,964 vehicles sold. The analysis by power supply, however, highlights a clear divergence: the thermal engine models, penalized by the end-of-series dynamics, halve their volumes (–46%, 3,854 units) while the electric quadricycles manage to contain losses (–1.3%, 13,110 units) also thanks to the incentives activated last spring.
