.AMERICANS like to super-size– and also not only their convenience food. They favour massive sport-utility autos (SUVs) and pickup over tiny cars. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, accounting for over half of all sales of brand-new automobiles, depending on to JATO Dynamics, a research company.
Although International vehicles are also getting bigger, American ones still have a relaxed top: in 2022 the ordinary cars and truck offered in The United States considered 1,857 kg, almost 20% more than the standard in Europe. Wide streets as well as huge parking spaces satisfy this taste for substantial rides– and so does the regulation. Yet a way out that for virtually half a century has actually incentivised purchases of huge cars will soon be actually tightened up.
Will that lead Americans to get smaller cars?