.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and also not merely their fast food. They favour substantial sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and pickup trucks over tiny automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up majority of all purchases of brand-new cars, depending on to JATO Characteristics, a study organization. Although International autos are likewise getting bigger, American ones still possess a comfy lead: in 2022 the normal vehicle sold in United States considered 1,857 kg, just about twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and also huge garage serve this taste for hefty rides-- and so performs the regulation. Yet a way out that for almost half a century has actually incentivised sales of huge automobiles will soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller cars?