.AMERICANS enjoy to super-size– and certainly not only their junk food. They favour big sport-utility lorries (SUVs) and pickup over tiny autos. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing more than half of all sales of brand-new lorries, according to JATO Dynamics, a study firm.
Although International automobiles are actually likewise getting bigger, United States ones still have a comfy top: in 2022 the normal automobile offered in The United States weighed 1,857 kilograms, practically 20% more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways and big parking spaces serve this taste for large rides– and so performs the law. However a loophole that for almost 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of major motor vehicles will definitely very soon be actually secured.
Will that lead Americans to get much smaller cars?