.AMERICANS like to super-size-- as well as not merely their junk food. They favour massive sport-utility lorries (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over small automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, accounting for more than half of all purchases of brand-new cars, according to JATO Characteristics, an investigation firm. Although European autos are likewise growing, American ones still have a comfortable top: in 2022 the ordinary auto sold in America weighed 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% greater than the average in Europe. Wide streets and huge parking spaces satisfy this desire for sizable adventures-- therefore performs the regulation. Yet a loophole that for nearly half a century has actually incentivised sales of major autos are going to soon be secured. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller sized automobiles?