.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and also not merely their junk food. They favour significant sport-utility automobiles (SUVs) and also pickup over little vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of new autos, depending on to JATO Dynamics, a research study organization. Although International cars and trucks are actually additionally getting bigger, American ones still have a comfortable top: in 2022 the typical vehicle sold in United States examined 1,857 kg, practically twenty% more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways and huge parking spaces satisfy this taste for substantial trips-- and so does the regulation. But a loophole that for nearly 50 years has incentivised sales of large lorries will very soon be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller autos?