.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- and also not simply their junk food. They favour massive sport-utility cars (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over small autos. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up majority of all purchases of brand new automobiles, according to JATO Characteristics, a study agency. Although International automobiles are actually likewise growing, United States ones still possess a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical auto marketed in United States weighed 1,857 kg, just about twenty% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways as well as major parking spaces satisfy this choice for large trips-- therefore does the legislation. But a way out that for virtually half a century has actually incentivised sales of huge autos will definitely very soon be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller sized cars and trucks?