Detroit Stages Throng of Trucks as Cheap Gas Fuels Demand

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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 Motor Corp.’s Tacoma and Nissan Motor Co.’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.