.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- as well as not only their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility motor vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) and also pickup trucks over little automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing over half of all sales of brand new automobiles, according to JATO Aspect, an investigation agency. Although International vehicles are actually additionally getting bigger, American ones still have a comfortable lead: in 2022 the common cars and truck marketed in United States weighed 1,857 kg, nearly 20% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roads as well as major garage support this inclination for substantial flights-- consequently performs the rule. Yet a technicality that for nearly half a century has actually incentivised sales of big vehicles will soon be actually tightened. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller automobiles?