.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- as well as not merely their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility lorries (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup trucks over little cars. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for over half of all purchases of brand-new cars, according to JATO Characteristics, an investigation company. Although European automobiles are actually additionally getting bigger, United States ones still possess a comfy top: in 2022 the normal automobile marketed in The United States weighed 1,857 kilograms, nearly 20% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide streets and huge parking spaces satisfy this choice for substantial trips-- and so carries out the legislation. Yet a technicality that for almost half a century has incentivised purchases of large cars will very soon be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to purchase smaller sized vehicles?