.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and also not merely their convenience food. They favour large sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and also pickup trucks over small vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of brand-new lorries, depending on to JATO Dynamics, a research study company. Although International cars and trucks are also getting bigger, American ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical vehicle sold in United States analyzed 1,857 kilograms, virtually 20% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways as well as large parking spaces accommodate this choice for sizable adventures-- therefore performs the law. Yet a technicality that for virtually half a century has actually incentivised purchases of huge lorries will definitely soon be tightened. Will that lead Americans to get much smaller cars and trucks?