.AMERICANS like to super-size-- as well as certainly not simply their fast food. They favour substantial sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup over small automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up over half of all sales of brand new cars, depending on to JATO Aspect, a research study company. Although European cars are additionally growing, United States ones still have a relaxed top: in 2022 the ordinary vehicle marketed in The United States analyzed 1,857 kilograms, practically twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide streets and also huge parking spaces support this preference for hefty trips-- consequently carries out the regulation. However a loophole that for nearly half a century has incentivised sales of significant motor vehicles will very soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller sized autos?