Remember they were sued by the USFL for anti-trust practices and lost. The NFL had to pay the USFL $3 as a result.
At least in respect to emissions regulations, absolutely. US cars required things like catalytic converters long before Europe, and CAFE fleet fuel efficiency standards kept companies from importing their vehicles with larger engines. This led to the import of “gray market” models from Europe. I’m not certain of the limitations, but you could import a more powerful European spec without catalytic converters.
Also some safety things, like 5 MPH bumpers. That’s why in the 70s and 80s lots of European cars had extra ugly bumpers on the versions sold in the US.
Closer to modern day, the US also has some regulations on lighting size and shape that date back to the incandescent era. This means that the European version of some cars get different turn signals and brake lights than the US versions.
Around the actual use of cars, I think Europe is more restrictive than the US.
One thing that I consider to be less capitalistic in the US refers access to personal bankruptcy.
But this is not strictly about capitalism as such (after all limited liability, the big sister of personal bankruptcy, is a vital element of modern capitalism), but about insulating people from the consequences of their choices.
One argument against universal healthcare that I have read advanced in the US is about the supposed moral hazard of people not being on the hook for treating what the person advancing that argument considers the patient’s lifestyle choices.
Only, the moral hazard of the availability of personal bankruptcy (i.e. saddling other people - one’s creditors - with one’s liabilities) seems not to be an issue in the US, and even the US right wing seems not to be keen on denying people the avenue of personal bankruptcy.
Contrast with e.g. Germany where private (consumer) bankruptcy was not even available before 1999 (before that a consumer over their ears in debt could only hope for the 30 year statute of limitations for debts that the creditor had obtained a court title for). In 1999 the period where a consumer had to try and pay back as much as possible was set to 6 years; this has since been lowered to 5 and sometimes 3 years. Plus about one year beforehand for the court procedure before the frugality and payback period begins. So it is still quite onerous to achieve consumer bankruptcy in Germany - you need to be conspiciously hardworking (or prove to assidiously seek employment) and frugal for at least ~4 years, typically for longer. If you own a home or apartment you will have to sell it to contribute to paying off your debtors.
One thing that was common in rural areas was the live in basement. Folks would by land, excavate for the basement and build or pour the walls. Add the deck for the first floor on top with a tarp or roofing paper to waterproof it. Then live in that until they’d saved enough to continue construction. A caravan would have been several steps up.
Some counties have no building codes nor inspections.
This reminds me of what a friend in grad school said to me once. His family was communist in the 30s and denounced FDR for “saving capitalism”. Capitalists of course denounced him for regulating it. You can’t win.