.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- and also not simply their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility lorries (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup over small automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up over half of all purchases of new cars, depending on to JATO Characteristics, an investigation company. Although International vehicles are also growing, American ones still possess a comfy lead: in 2022 the average car marketed in America analyzed 1,857 kilograms, just about twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide roadways and also huge parking spaces satisfy this desire for significant adventures-- and so carries out the regulation. Yet a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised purchases of major vehicles will definitely soon be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to buy much smaller cars?