.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- and also not simply their fast food. They favour large sport-utility autos (Sport utility vehicles) as well as pickup trucks over little vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing over half of all sales of brand new lorries, according to JATO Aspect, a research company. Although European autos are additionally growing, United States ones still possess a comfortable top: in 2022 the normal car marketed in The United States considered 1,857 kilograms, nearly twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and significant garage accommodate this desire for sizable flights-- therefore does the regulation. But a loophole that for nearly half a century has incentivised sales of major cars are going to very soon be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to purchase much smaller cars?