.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- and certainly not just their fast food. They favour big sport-utility vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup trucks over tiny cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up more than half of all sales of brand-new cars, depending on to JATO Characteristics, a research organization. Although European automobiles are likewise growing, American ones still possess a relaxed lead: in 2022 the normal automobile marketed in United States considered 1,857 kilograms, just about twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roadways and big garage serve this preference for sizable flights-- therefore performs the law. Yet a loophole that for almost half a century has actually incentivised sales of significant automobiles will quickly be actually secured. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller autos?