.AMERICANS adore to super-size– as well as not just their junk food. They favour large sport-utility motor vehicles (SUVs) and pickup trucks over little automobiles. Some 8.7 m hit the trail in 2023, making up more than half of all purchases of brand-new lorries, according to JATO Dynamics, an investigation agency.
Although European automobiles are additionally growing, American ones still have a comfortable lead: in 2022 the typical cars and truck marketed in America analyzed 1,857 kilograms, practically 20% greater than the standard in Europe. Wide roads and huge garage satisfy this desire for large experiences– and so carries out the law. Yet a loophole that for almost half a century has incentivised purchases of significant lorries will soon be actually firmed up.
Will that lead Americans to get much smaller automobiles?