.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- as well as certainly not simply their convenience food. They favour substantial sport-utility autos (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over small automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up over half of all sales of new vehicles, according to JATO Aspect, a research agency. Although European cars are also getting bigger, American ones still have a relaxed lead: in 2022 the common cars and truck offered in The United States examined 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide roads and large parking spaces accommodate this taste for sizable experiences-- and so does the legislation. Yet a way out that for virtually 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of significant automobiles are going to quickly be tightened. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller automobiles?