.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- as well as certainly not simply their fast food. They favour substantial sport-utility lorries (SUVs) and pickup trucks over small cars. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up over half of all purchases of brand new automobiles, according to JATO Characteristics, a research company. Although European cars and trucks are likewise growing, American ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical vehicle offered in The United States considered 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide streets and big parking spaces support this desire for significant rides-- and so does the regulation. Yet a way out that for almost half a century has actually incentivised sales of significant automobiles will certainly soon be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to get much smaller automobiles?