.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and also certainly not merely their junk food. They favour huge sport-utility autos (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over small cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, accounting for majority of all sales of brand new autos, depending on to JATO Mechanics, a research study agency. Although International cars are also growing, United States ones still have a relaxed top: in 2022 the average automobile marketed in United States evaluated 1,857 kg, practically twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and big parking spaces accommodate this preference for sizable flights-- consequently carries out the regulation. But a loophole that for almost 50 years has actually incentivised sales of major motor vehicles are going to very soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to purchase much smaller autos?