.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- as well as not merely their convenience food. They favour significant sport-utility automobiles (SUVs) and also pickup trucks over little automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of new cars, depending on to JATO Characteristics, an analysis company. Although International automobiles are actually also getting bigger, American ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the normal auto offered in America weighed 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% more than the standard in Europe. Wide streets and also significant parking spaces accommodate this desire for sizable trips-- consequently does the legislation. Yet a technicality that for nearly 50 years has incentivised purchases of large automobiles will very soon be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to get smaller sized vehicles?