.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- and not simply their fast food. They favour significant sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup trucks over little vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing more than half of all sales of new autos, depending on to JATO Mechanics, a research study agency. Although European cars and trucks are actually likewise growing, United States ones still possess a comfy lead: in 2022 the ordinary auto marketed in America weighed 1,857 kilograms, virtually twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide roadways and significant garage satisfy this preference for significant rides-- therefore carries out the regulation. Yet a technicality that for almost half a century has actually incentivised sales of huge automobiles will very soon be actually firmed up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized cars?