30. 1972-1979 Datsun 620
Japanese car companies have long been trying to break into the American pickup truck market. Nissan started the Datsun truck series in 1955 to compete with American trucks, hoping to get a slice of a very lucrative pie. Launched in 1972, the 620 compact truck came equipped with a four-cylinder engine. The Datsun 620 represents perhaps the best truck of the Datsun lineup and built a sizable following in the tough-to-crack American truck market. The Datsun brand would later be phased out in favor of Nissan and in 1997 the truck lineup was replaced by the Navara and Frontier.