.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- as well as certainly not only their fast food. They favour huge sport-utility cars (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup over tiny autos. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing more than half of all sales of brand new autos, according to JATO Characteristics, a study firm. Although European cars and trucks are additionally growing, United States ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the common automobile marketed in United States weighed 1,857 kilograms, virtually twenty% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide streets as well as huge garage accommodate this taste for substantial trips-- therefore carries out the legislation. But a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised purchases of large autos will very soon be tightened. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized cars?