.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- as well as certainly not merely their convenience food. They favour big sport-utility lorries (SUVs) as well as pickup over little vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, accounting for more than half of all sales of brand-new autos, according to JATO Dynamics, a research firm. Although International cars and trucks are also getting bigger, United States ones still have a relaxed top: in 2022 the common car marketed in America weighed 1,857 kg, practically twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways and also major garage serve this inclination for sizable rides-- and so does the law. But a technicality that for virtually 50 years has incentivised purchases of huge automobiles will definitely quickly be actually firmed up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller autos?