.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and not only their convenience food. They favour significant sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup trucks over tiny cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for more than half of all purchases of brand-new vehicles, according to JATO Dynamics, an investigation organization. Although European automobiles are actually also growing, American ones still have a pleasant top: in 2022 the common auto marketed in The United States evaluated 1,857 kilograms, just about twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide streets and huge parking spaces accommodate this preference for hefty adventures-- therefore does the rule. But a technicality that for virtually half a century has actually incentivised purchases of major lorries will definitely soon be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to purchase much smaller vehicles?