.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and certainly not only their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and pickup over little cars. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing majority of all purchases of brand new vehicles, according to JATO Mechanics, a study company. Although European vehicles are additionally getting bigger, United States ones still have a comfortable top: in 2022 the ordinary auto sold in United States considered 1,857 kg, just about twenty% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide streets and also major garage accommodate this desire for large flights-- therefore carries out the law. Yet a loophole that for nearly 50 years has actually incentivised sales of huge vehicles will certainly very soon be actually secured. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller cars?