.AMERICANS adore to super-size-- and certainly not merely their convenience food. They favour large sport-utility vehicles (Sport utility vehicles) and pickup trucks over tiny vehicles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up majority of all purchases of new vehicles, according to JATO Characteristics, an investigation firm. Although International vehicles are also growing, United States ones still possess a comfortable lead: in 2022 the ordinary auto marketed in The United States considered 1,857 kg, nearly 20% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and significant garage serve this preference for substantial trips-- therefore does the rule. However a way out that for virtually 50 years has incentivised sales of major cars will definitely soon be firmed up. Will that lead Americans to acquire much smaller cars?