.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- and not only their junk food. They favour substantial sport-utility cars (SUVs) and pickup over little vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing over half of all purchases of brand-new vehicles, according to JATO Dynamics, an analysis company. Although International cars are additionally getting bigger, American ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the common vehicle marketed in The United States examined 1,857 kg, practically twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roads and significant parking spaces accommodate this taste for significant rides-- therefore does the law. But a way out that for almost half a century has incentivised purchases of big cars are going to quickly be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to get smaller autos?