.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- and also certainly not merely their convenience food. They favour big sport-utility automobiles (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup over tiny automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up over half of all sales of brand new autos, according to JATO Dynamics, an analysis company. Although European cars are additionally growing, American ones still possess a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical auto offered in The United States evaluated 1,857 kilograms, nearly twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roadways and also large garage accommodate this choice for hefty rides-- consequently performs the legislation. But a way out that for virtually 50 years has incentivised sales of big lorries will very soon be actually firmed up. Will that lead Americans to purchase smaller vehicles?