.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size-- and also not just their convenience food. They favour big sport-utility lorries (Sport utility vehicles) as well as pickup over tiny vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for more than half of all purchases of brand new motor vehicles, according to JATO Characteristics, an investigation company. Although European cars are likewise growing, United States ones still have a pleasant top: in 2022 the normal vehicle marketed in The United States weighed 1,857 kg, virtually 20% more than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and huge parking spaces satisfy this preference for hefty adventures-- therefore performs the law. But a technicality that for almost half a century has incentivised purchases of significant vehicles will certainly very soon be tightened. Will that lead Americans to buy smaller autos?