.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and certainly not only their convenience food. They favour large sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and also pickup trucks over tiny vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing more than half of all purchases of brand new cars, according to JATO Dynamics, a research study organization. Although International cars and trucks are actually additionally getting bigger, American ones still possess a comfortable lead: in 2022 the average car marketed in America evaluated 1,857 kg, just about twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide streets and also significant parking spaces accommodate this taste for substantial rides-- and so carries out the regulation. Yet a way out that for nearly 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of large motor vehicles will certainly soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller sized autos?