Detroit stages new pickups as cheap fuel spurs demand - The State
Americans are about to have their pick from the broadest set of updated pickups ever, just as cheap gasoline rekindles their love affair with trucks. Revamped versions of Toyota’s Tacoma and Nissan’s Titan are set to hit dealer lots in 2015, raising to nine the number of pickup models sold in the U. S. that will have been redesigned within the last three years. The breadth of fresh models is unprecedented in any period since Japan’s automakers began trying to crack the Detroit-dominated market in the 1990s. The new pickups debuted Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit will... As more Americans go back to pumping gas for less than $2 a gallon, Ford and General Motors lead truck manufacturers coming off their best year for deliveries since 2007. “I don’t remember a time when all the trucks have been redone as close... The market for $50,000-and-up trucks overshadows the set of buyers that Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and BMW’s main brand draw for their pricey models, an analysis last month by TrueCar Inc. A confluence of economic and industry conditions contributed to the clustering of automakers’ pickup model redesigns into such a short period. Source: www.thestate.com
