.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and certainly not merely their convenience food. They favour large sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup trucks over small autos. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of brand new lorries, depending on to JATO Dynamics, a research firm. Although International cars and trucks are actually also growing, American ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the common vehicle sold in America analyzed 1,857 kilograms, nearly twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide roadways as well as significant parking spaces serve this choice for hefty trips-- and so does the legislation. However a way out that for almost 50 years has incentivised purchases of large cars will definitely soon be actually firmed up. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller vehicles?