The 1990s was a heyday for American prosperity and that was also reflected in its pickup trucks, including these.

By the time the second generation Excel hit the market, Hyundai had become well established as a maker of sensible, high-value, low-cost cars here in the U.S.—enough so that Mitsubishi found its cars ...

Though performance pickups are part of the norm these days, this model kicked off the trend in the late 1980s.