.AMERICANS really love to super-size-- and also not simply their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility motor vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) as well as pickup trucks over little automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing more than half of all sales of brand-new lorries, depending on to JATO Dynamics, a research study organization. Although European cars are actually additionally getting bigger, American ones still have a comfy lead: in 2022 the typical cars and truck sold in The United States weighed 1,857 kilograms, almost twenty% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways and also major parking spaces accommodate this choice for hefty rides-- and so carries out the regulation. Yet a way out that for virtually 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of huge cars will certainly soon be secured. Will that lead Americans to get much smaller automobiles?