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09-22-2013, 02:00 AM
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Even as fuel prices creep back up, trucks are still a hot item among new-vehicle shoppers. To see how popular pickup trucks still are, you don't have to look any further than how much effort automakers put into the continual one-upmanship of their trucks. Backing this fact up, <em>USA Today</em> is reporting that the segment could top two million sales this year - a total not matched since 2007, though still far from the pre-recession, three-million-unit levels.<br />
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Through August, the Ford F-Series continues to be the segment leader with almost 500,000 units sold, but the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/silverado/">Chevy Silverado</a> (328,269), <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ram/1500/">Ram 1500</a> (234,642), <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gmc/sierra/">GMC Sierra</a> (122,232) and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/tacoma/">Toyota Tacoma</a> (110,293) are all seeing at least 20-percent sales increases, helping to account for around 1.44 million truck sales so far this year - not including possible outliers like the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/suzuki/equator/">Suzuki Equator</a> and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/chevrolet/avalanche/">Chevy Avalanche</a>.<br />
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This year alone, General Motors has completely redesigned its fullsize trucks, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ram/">Ram</a> and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/toyota/">Toyota</a> have significantly updated their offerings, the next-gen <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/ford/f-150/">Ford F-150</a> will be out next year and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/nissan/">Nissan</a> is promising an all-new <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/nissan/titan/">Titan</a> around the same time with an eventual <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/08/20/nissan-titan-turbo-diesel-v8-cummins/">Cummins diesel under the hood</a>. It would seem, then, that truck sales are poised to continue their upward trend.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/09/21/pickup-sales-highest-since-2007/">Pickup sales may hit 2M units for first time since 2007</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblog</a> on Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:03:00 EST. Please see our <a href="/rss-term-of-use/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/09/21/pickup-sales-highest-since-2007/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/20726038/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2013/09/21/pickup-sales-highest-since-2007/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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