.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- and also not just their junk food. They favour significant sport-utility automobiles (Sport utility vehicles) as well as pickup over small cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all sales of new automobiles, according to JATO Characteristics, an analysis firm. Although International autos are actually additionally growing, United States ones still have a comfortable top: in 2022 the ordinary automobile marketed in The United States considered 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roadways and also huge parking spaces accommodate this choice for significant adventures-- and so performs the legislation. But a technicality that for virtually half a century has actually incentivised purchases of huge cars will definitely soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized autos?