.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- as well as not only their convenience food. They favour substantial sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and also pickup trucks over little autos. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up over half of all purchases of brand-new autos, according to JATO Mechanics, an investigation company. Although European autos are actually additionally growing, American ones still possess a relaxed lead: in 2022 the normal cars and truck offered in America analyzed 1,857 kg, nearly 20% much more than the average in Europe. Wide roads as well as huge parking spaces satisfy this taste for substantial trips-- therefore performs the law. But a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised sales of major motor vehicles will certainly soon be secured. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller sized autos?