.AMERICANS like to super-size-- and certainly not just their fast food. They favour massive sport-utility lorries (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over tiny autos. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, accounting for more than half of all sales of brand new lorries, depending on to JATO Aspect, an investigation agency. Although International cars are actually also getting bigger, American ones still possess a comfortable lead: in 2022 the ordinary car sold in America analyzed 1,857 kilograms, nearly twenty% much more than the average in Europe. Wide roadways as well as big garage satisfy this inclination for substantial flights-- therefore carries out the legislation. But a technicality that for nearly 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of big autos will very soon be actually secured. Will that lead Americans to buy much smaller automobiles?