.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- as well as certainly not simply their convenience food. They favour massive sport-utility automobiles (SUVs) and pickup over little autos. 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 Aspect, a research study agency. Although International cars are actually also getting bigger, United States ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the typical cars and truck sold in America weighed 1,857 kg, practically twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide roadways as well as big garage accommodate this desire for significant adventures-- and so does the rule. However a technicality that for almost 50 years has actually incentivised sales of large automobiles are going to soon be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller autos?