.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- and certainly not merely their convenience food. They favour huge sport-utility lorries (SUVs) and also pickup over little automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all sales of brand new cars, depending on to JATO Mechanics, a research study firm. Although European autos are likewise growing, American ones still have a pleasant lead: in 2022 the normal auto offered in America weighed 1,857 kilograms, just about twenty% much more than the average in Europe. Wide streets as well as big parking spaces support this preference for sizable adventures-- and so does the legislation. Yet a loophole that for almost half a century has actually incentivised purchases of significant autos will very soon be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to acquire smaller sized vehicles?