.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- as well as certainly not simply their convenience food. They favour huge sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) and pickup over little autos. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing more than half of all sales of brand-new cars, depending on to JATO Characteristics, a study agency. Although European cars and trucks are actually also growing, American ones still possess a comfortable lead: in 2022 the ordinary auto sold in United States evaluated 1,857 kg, nearly twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide streets and major garage accommodate this desire for substantial rides-- and so carries out the rule. However a loophole that for almost half a century has actually incentivised purchases of huge automobiles will quickly be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized cars and trucks?