.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- and certainly not just their junk food. They favour big sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) as well as pickup over tiny automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for more than half of all purchases of brand-new cars, according to JATO Characteristics, an analysis agency. Although International cars and trucks are actually also growing, American ones still have a pleasant top: in 2022 the ordinary vehicle marketed in United States considered 1,857 kilograms, just about twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roads and big parking spaces serve this inclination for significant flights-- and so performs the legislation. But a loophole that for almost 50 years has incentivised purchases of big autos are going to soon be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to purchase smaller autos?