.AMERICANS LOVE to super-size– and also not simply their fast food. They favour significant sport-utility cars (SUVs) and also pickup trucks over small cars and trucks. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, representing over half of all purchases of new motor vehicles, depending on to JATO Dynamics, an analysis agency.
Although European automobiles are actually additionally getting bigger, American ones still have a comfortable lead: in 2022 the average auto marketed in America examined 1,857 kg, almost twenty% more than the average in Europe. Wide roads and large garage support this taste for significant rides– therefore carries out the law. But a technicality that for nearly half a century has incentivised purchases of large cars are going to quickly be actually tightened up.
Will that lead Americans to purchase much smaller automobiles?