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I understand we are a very small percentage of potential buyers, but would this affect your decision in purchasing a new ford?
No. I would not be buying a small ford anyway.
Even if I were I am not sure it would matter. I usually do not notice where a car I bought was assembled until I have reason to look at the door plate some months or years later. There are no US made cars anymore. Some of the work is done here, some in other countries. - Pretty much all vehicles.
I do try o keep the high dollar income earners part of the purchase here. In other words, it does matter to me where the engineers, idea people, managers, insurance people, marketers, accountants, lawyers, organizational psychologists etcetera who get paid form the profits of the car are located. In part because it is best to keep the high income jobs here, in part because it is something we can impact by purchase choices, while assembly, parts etcetera is not. No matter what you buy, you are buying a mish mash of foreign and US made. Whether it is 28% or 33% makes virtually no difference. However, we can make an impact on where the money for the other part of the purchase ends up.
Only Ford I'm interested in(Focus RS) is built in Germany. Their European offerings are so much better than what we get here. They're finally starting to understand that.
More concerned about the design and quality of the end product rather than where it was built. To a certain extent anyway. Wouldn't knowingly buy from a place with child labor, major human rights violations, etc.
So you'd rather be making $7.5 an hour with mandatory 60 hour work weeks and no overtime pay?
Educate yourself on the history of American labor movements and understand why they were important and why unions made America great even if the UAW overstepped it later on.
Or just parrot back the right wing pro-corporate brainwashing you've been taught.
I think that many would love this to happen in the USA as long as it was not them personally.
Let's go back to the mill days. Six days a week. 06:00 AM to 06:00 PM with no overtime. And if you get injured on the job - you are fired.
Well, with small cars it's not like you'll have much of a choice. Fit and Mazda3 are both made in Mexico, Cruze is moving to Mexico (from S. Korea), Corolla is moving to Mexico. Mexico is kind of sketchy on reliability/quality. Honda had problems with the Fit and is moving the CR-V back to the US. Fusion was pretty good when it was in Mexico. It's likewise moving back to Mexico for 2017. They need the capacity for the Mustang and new Lincoln Continental.
Civic so far isn't going to Mexico, so I guess you'll buy a Civic if made in the good ol' USA is a thing.. or not buy a small car. Or a Fit. Since Honda can't make enough Fits in Mexico, a lot of them are coming from Japan.
Honestly, though, the only Ford that really interests me is made in Germany so the answer is no. At least unless some unknown relative croaks and I come into a bunch of money I don't know what to do with, in which case I'd look at the GT350.
What is a fit?
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