.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and also not simply their junk food. They favour significant sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup over tiny vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up majority of all sales of brand-new motor vehicles, depending on to JATO Mechanics, a research study firm. Although European cars and trucks are actually additionally growing, American ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the normal auto offered in The United States analyzed 1,857 kg, just about twenty% more than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and also significant parking spaces accommodate this desire for substantial trips-- therefore does the legislation. Yet a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised sales of huge vehicles are going to quickly be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to buy much smaller cars?