.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and certainly not only their junk food. They favour big sport-utility cars (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over tiny automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of brand new cars, depending on to JATO Dynamics, a research company. Although European vehicles are actually additionally growing, American ones still possess a pleasant lead: in 2022 the ordinary auto offered in United States considered 1,857 kilograms, just about 20% more than the average in Europe. Wide roads and also huge garage serve this choice for sizable rides-- and so performs the legislation. However a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised sales of large automobiles will soon be actually secured. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller automobiles?