.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- as well as not just their convenience food. They favour big sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup trucks over little cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up majority of all purchases of brand-new autos, depending on to JATO Mechanics, a research agency. Although International cars are also getting bigger, American ones still possess a relaxed top: in 2022 the ordinary cars and truck marketed in America weighed 1,857 kilograms, virtually 20% more than the average in Europe. Wide streets as well as significant garage support this taste for large experiences-- therefore performs the rule. Yet a technicality that for virtually 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of major automobiles will definitely soon be tightened. Will that lead Americans to buy much smaller cars and trucks?