.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and also certainly not just their fast food. They favour big sport-utility lorries (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup over tiny vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, making up over half of all purchases of new lorries, according to JATO Characteristics, a study company. Although European cars and trucks are actually likewise growing, American ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the normal automobile marketed in The United States analyzed 1,857 kg, virtually twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide roadways as well as major garage accommodate this choice for hefty adventures-- therefore does the regulation. Yet a loophole that for virtually 50 years has incentivised purchases of big automobiles will very soon be tightened up. Will that lead Americans to get much smaller cars and trucks?