http://www.insideline.com/chevrolet/colorado/gm-to-resurrect-midsize-trucks.html

By Bill Visnic; Edmunds Inside Line ~ Sep 23, 2011 

DETROIT — Midsize pickup trucks — they used to be called "compact" before they got too big for that to make sense — were presumed left for dead by the Detroit Three, but a variety of moves in the past week indicate that General Motors isn't carving any headstones after all.