.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and also certainly not just their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and pickup over tiny cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all sales of brand-new motor vehicles, according to JATO Aspect, an analysis firm. Although European vehicles are likewise growing, American ones still possess a comfy top: in 2022 the average automobile offered in America considered 1,857 kg, just about twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide streets and also major garage serve this inclination for large rides-- therefore does the legislation. However a technicality that for virtually 50 years has incentivised sales of significant motor vehicles will definitely soon be actually firmed up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller sized cars?