.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- as well as not just their fast food. They favour significant sport-utility vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup trucks over little automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of brand new motor vehicles, according to JATO Dynamics, an investigation firm. Although European cars and trucks are actually likewise getting bigger, United States ones still have a pleasant top: in 2022 the ordinary car offered in America evaluated 1,857 kg, nearly twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roadways and big garage support this taste for significant trips-- consequently performs the law. However a technicality that for nearly half a century has incentivised sales of big vehicles will certainly very soon be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to get much smaller vehicles?