The midsize truck market has been dominated the last few years by the Toyota Tacoma and Nissan Frontier. While the American manufacturers have decided to get out of this market and focus solely on full sized trucks, both Toyota and Nissan have pressed on and continued to offer their midsize trucks. Despite the current generation Tacomas and Frontiers receiving only minimal updates over the past five years, sales have continued to increase and in turn, it has opened the eyes of some of the American manufacturers – most notably GM who has recently released its Colorado and Canyon into the midsize market.

With the great void of updates for the Toyota Tacoma, it was only a matter of time until the powers at be decided to give the Tacoma a complete refresh – and that time appears to be now. Released today in a very brief but to the point press release, Toyota had the following to say about the upcoming unveiling; “Toyota’s rolling out the all-new 2016 Tacoma at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 12, 2015.”

This one sentence press release was very brief by Toyota’s standards and provides little to no additional information about the release – other than that it is coming soon. In addition, Toyota released the image above of the new Tacoma that shows the updated version will share similar styling cues to that of its big-brother, the Tundra, with “Tacoma” embossed on the tailgate.

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