What I am looking for is a list that shows the number of Motorcycle's
and ATV's sold and/or regestered in the United States for the current
year and/or the last 2 years.
Thanks
Pete J.

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Clarification of Question by pedrodesmo-ga on 22 Aug 2002 14:34 PDT

In answering the question, there must be information including each
manufacturer. (IE: Suzuki, Honda, Yamaha, Ducati, ETC.....)
Thanks

I am posting this as a comment because I wasn’t able to find all the
information you requested. Perhaps another researcher will have better
luck.

In a recent Motorcycle Riders Foundation Newsletter dated July/August
2002:

It is worse now, with new motorcycle sales having soared in the past
few years (from some 300,000 new units sold in 1990 to 710,000 in
2000).
http://www.mrf.org/reports/JulAug02web.pdf

 “ATV unit sales during 2001 showed an 12.4% increase with total ATV
sales exceeding 700,000 units as noted by ATV Magazine. This growth
followed a 19.2% increase in 2000, the year in which total ATV sales
surpassed total motorcycle sales for the first time.”
http://216.239.51.100/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&q=cache:http%3A//biz.yahoo.com/bw/020430/302329_1.html

The closest your gonna get (including the various manufactuers, AND
atv's) will probably be found in the records of the insurers of such
vechicles. Especially true since every dentist rides a Harley these
days and you KNOW that they are going to insure them. And I figure
that enough folks will insure the ATV's against theft that you can
come up with a round number. Hope this helps.

The Motorcycle Industry Council maintains a statistical database going
back to 1996. The Website is <a href="http://www.mic.org/">Motorcycle
Industry Council</a>. This is a membership based organization. The
website list phone numbers to call in order to obtain the relevant
information.