.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- as well as certainly not only their junk food. They favour massive sport-utility cars (Sport utility vehicles) and also 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 automobiles, according to JATO Dynamics, a research study agency. Although European autos are actually likewise getting bigger, American ones still have a comfortable lead: in 2022 the common car sold in America considered 1,857 kilograms, just about 20% much more than the average in Europe. Wide streets as well as large parking spaces satisfy this preference for substantial rides-- consequently performs the legislation. Yet a loophole that for nearly half a century has actually incentivised purchases of major motor vehicles will certainly very soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to purchase much smaller vehicles?