.AMERICANS like to super-size– and also not merely their junk food. They favour big sport-utility cars (SUVs) and pickup trucks over small autos. Some 8.7 m hit the road in 2023, accounting for more than half of all purchases of brand-new automobiles, according to JATO Dynamics, an analysis agency.
Although International autos are actually likewise growing, United States ones still have a relaxed top: in 2022 the common automobile offered in The United States examined 1,857 kilograms, nearly twenty% much more than the standard in Europe. Wide roadways as well as large parking spaces accommodate this inclination for sizable adventures– and so carries out the rule. However a way out that for virtually 50 years has actually incentivised purchases of large motor vehicles will soon be tightened up.
Will that lead Americans to purchase much smaller vehicles?