Three years ago, most industry experts thought the Big Three were going to lose control of the last market segment they still dominated - large trucks - to the Japanese up-and-comers.
By next year, the only Japanese automaker still in the full-size truck business will be Toyota.
Nissan has cancelled the Titan - for all practical purposes, anyhow. (The 2011 model will be a re-badged Dodge Ram.) It seems very likely that Honda will retire the doing-poorly Ridgeline (which isn't really a truck anyhow.)
That leaves the Toyota Tundra as the proverbial Last Man Standing - and the only Japanese-brand alternative to a Ford F-150, Chevy Silverado or Dodge Ram 1500.
All three of the Big Three's big trucks have recently been updated, too - while the 2010 Tundra's to a great extent the same truck it was back in 2007.
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