.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and not simply their fast food. They favour substantial sport-utility lorries (SUVs) and also pickup over tiny cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for over half of all purchases of new automobiles, according to JATO Characteristics, a research agency. Although International vehicles are actually also growing, United States ones still have a comfortable lead: in 2022 the average automobile sold in America weighed 1,857 kg, nearly twenty% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways and significant garage satisfy this preference for significant rides-- consequently carries out the law. Yet a way out that for almost 50 years has incentivised purchases of significant lorries will quickly be actually tightened up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized cars?