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"The most American vehicle for 2012 probably isn't going to be a Ford, or General Motors product, or even a Chrysler or Jeep. It's most likely going to be the 2012 Toyota Camry. That's according to the federal government's annual U.S./Canadian parts-content figures, as posted on new-car window stickers and required by the American Automobile Labeling Act (AALA).
According to Toyota, the gasoline version will have a market-leading 92-percent North American-sourced parts."
In that case, I will just keep my old American cars. And if I decide to buy another one, it will be an old American car... with an American-car name.
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I buy the vehicle that suits my needs regardless of where it was made, but currently have two Fords and a Jeep. My Ranger was assembled in St. Louis, but the engine was made in Germany, the transmission in France.who know where other various parts were made? Impossible to call anything American made unless you pick it up t the factory.
Or you could be like Fleet and own the classics....I have a 1969 Nova that was built in Willow Run, MI and a 1987 Regal T that was built at the Pontiac, MI G body plant months before the factory shut down in late 1987. So yep these were hatched and crated right here in the U.S.
But I do agree with some of the others, but what you want....I actually kind of want a new Challenger, if I could get past the heaviness of them and the fact it's a Chrysler product.
Remember, if you buy used, your money only goes to the bank or the guy/dealership you bought the car from, not the manufacturer. So if you bought used from a guy in America, your money stays in America, regardless of brand/model of car.
We get into this argument with Dodge truck owners that come into the shop all the time. Seems like every guy that owns a Dodge feels the need to boast about his truck being American made by an American company, with American employees blah blah blah... That's right about the time my lead mechanic chimes in and says "hey man, I agree with you 100%. That's why I bought a Tundra. Next time you should buy one. At least it's built in this country"..
This really pissed off the last guy as he had his truck in to us for a trans rebuild at 105K. Trucks never been anything but a daily driver. Not a work truck, not a hauler. My mechanics Tundra has 190K+ and has been worked to death everyday of it's life with ZERO problems.
Hate to say it but if you want an American car buy a Camry.
Who gives a rats ass? Only those who understand the decline of the American middle-class is the root of most of what ails us as a nation and who see that the future for our children and grandchildren appears to be working for Bangladesh wages. The domestic automobile industry is what drove the American economy for decades and when it's gone, so is our future.
Other than that, why should anyone give a rats ass, right? After all, if I can buy a car a few bucks cheaper, what the hell? My kids and grandkids can be the first generation in our history to have no reasonable expectation of living a better life than their parents. If I aid the decline of the country they have to live in by buying foreign made products because they're cheaper, that's really their problem, ain't it?
Posts like this are so tiresome. You think consumers should buy an inferior product because it was made in the USA? I am not saying US brands are inferior now. But for about twenty years, beginning in the 1970s, American cars stagnated while imports, mostly Japanese, rapidly improved in quality and durability.
For most of the 1990s and newer, Japanese cars cost more than the equivalent American car. Consumers paid more for a better product. You couldn't get a discount on an Accord but you could buy an Impala for $5000 off.
American car companies, and the labor that built these vehicles, brought this all on themselves. Their design teams created terrible designs, negotiated their labor contracts, and the UAW workers built them.
In the meantime automotive manufacturers opened factories all over the US in non-UAW states. These workers are paid good wages and keep manufacturing in the USA.
I like my new Mustang built in the USA with parts from who knows where.
The transmission is from a German company (Getrag) but outsourced to China. I can only assume the radio is from Japan but also outsourced to China. Since most of the fasteners are metric I can only guess they are foreign made.
So nice to have an American made car.
We get into this argument with Dodge truck owners that come into the shop all the time. Seems like every guy that owns a Dodge feels the need to boast about his truck being American made by an American company, with American employees blah blah blah... That's right about the time my lead mechanic chimes in and says "hey man, I agree with you 100%. That's why I bought a Tundra. Next time you should buy one. At least it's built in this country"..
This really pissed off the last guy as he had his truck in to us for a trans rebuild at 105K. Trucks never been anything but a daily driver. Not a work truck, not a hauler. My mechanics Tundra has 190K+ and has been worked to death everyday of it's life with ZERO problems.
Hate to say it but if you want an American car buy a Camry.
After mouthing off to a paying customer, did your lead mechanic get to keep his job?
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