.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and certainly not only their fast food. They favour significant sport-utility motor vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup trucks over tiny vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for more than half of all sales of brand-new automobiles, according to JATO Dynamics, a study company. Although International cars and trucks are likewise growing, United States ones still possess a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical automobile sold in The United States examined 1,857 kg, just about twenty% much more than the average in Europe. Wide streets and large garage support this inclination for hefty experiences-- consequently does the legislation. But a technicality that for virtually 50 years has incentivised purchases of large automobiles will certainly very soon be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller automobiles?