.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- and not simply their convenience food. They favour huge sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) and pickup trucks over little autos. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of brand-new cars, depending on to JATO Characteristics, a research study organization. Although European automobiles are additionally growing, United States ones still possess a comfortable lead: in 2022 the ordinary car sold in The United States analyzed 1,857 kg, practically twenty% much more than the average in Europe. Wide streets and also major garage satisfy this preference for large experiences-- therefore performs the regulation. But a loophole that for nearly 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of significant lorries will soon be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller automobiles?