.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- and also certainly not only their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility automobiles (SUVs) and also pickup trucks over small cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing more than half of all purchases of brand new motor vehicles, according to JATO Aspect, a study company. Although European vehicles are actually also getting bigger, American ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the average car marketed in The United States weighed 1,857 kilograms, practically twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roads and also large parking spaces serve this taste for large rides-- and so carries out the law. But a technicality that for almost 50 years has incentivised sales of large lorries will very soon be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized automobiles?