.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and not only their convenience food. They favour big sport-utility lorries (SUVs) and pickup trucks over small cars. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up majority of all sales of brand new automobiles, according to JATO Characteristics, a research agency. Although European vehicles are likewise getting bigger, United States ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical auto marketed in The United States evaluated 1,857 kilograms, just about twenty% much more than the average in Europe. Wide roads and also big parking spaces serve this choice for substantial adventures-- therefore carries out the regulation. Yet a loophole that for virtually 50 years has actually incentivised sales of huge vehicles will certainly quickly be actually firmed up. Will that lead Americans to purchase smaller sized autos?