.AMERICANS like to super-size-- as well as certainly not only their convenience food. They favour massive sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and also pickup over tiny cars. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for over half of all purchases of brand-new autos, depending on to JATO Dynamics, an investigation agency. Although European vehicles are actually also getting bigger, United States ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the typical cars and truck sold in United States examined 1,857 kilograms, almost twenty% more than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and huge garage serve this desire for large flights-- consequently does the law. However a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised sales of big lorries will quickly be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller vehicles?