.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and also certainly not just their fast food. They favour huge sport-utility cars (Sport utility vehicles) as well as pickup trucks over little autos. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing over half of all purchases of brand-new automobiles, according to JATO Mechanics, an analysis firm. Although European cars are actually likewise getting bigger, American ones still have a pleasant lead: in 2022 the average auto sold in America evaluated 1,857 kg, nearly twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide streets and big parking spaces support this desire for significant trips-- consequently does the legislation. Yet a technicality that for virtually 50 years has incentivised sales of big cars will certainly quickly be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to purchase smaller cars and trucks?