.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size-- and also not only their junk food. They favour massive sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup trucks over tiny autos. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, representing majority of all purchases of brand new lorries, according to JATO Mechanics, a research organization. Although European autos are actually also growing, United States ones still possess a pleasant lead: in 2022 the average auto marketed in United States analyzed 1,857 kilograms, nearly twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide streets and also big garage support this preference for large flights-- and so carries out the legislation. But a loophole that for almost half a century has incentivised sales of major vehicles are going to very soon be tightened. Will that lead Americans to get smaller sized cars and trucks?