It should be obvious that bigger, heavier cars are an ecological disaster. Since 1970, the truck has become progressively larger, even as its bed – the fundamental point of owning a pickup truck, one would think – has become smaller.
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Take, for example, the iconic Ford F-150, as Axios does in this comparative graphic. You can see the evolution most clearly with pickup trucks. It’s not just that people are opting to drive larger models the same models themselves have expanded.
This year, the average weight of a new car in the US was more than 4,300lb (2,000kg) – a full 1,000lb (450kg) more than in 1980.
When it comes to oversized passenger cars, though, Europe as a whole should be doing more to make sure that they remain confined to the other side of the Atlantic. Whether France is chauvinist enough on its own to resist an invasion of American doughnuts remains to be seen.