.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- and certainly not just their junk food. They favour substantial sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) as well as pickup trucks over little vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for majority of all purchases of new vehicles, depending on to JATO Characteristics, a research study firm. Although International automobiles are actually likewise growing, United States ones still possess a comfortable top: in 2022 the average car marketed in The United States considered 1,857 kg, just about twenty% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and also big garage support this choice for significant trips-- therefore does the rule. Yet a loophole that for nearly 50 years has incentivised purchases of big motor vehicles will certainly soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller autos?