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How To Buy an American Car


What is an American car? It's hard to say, because foreign carmakers such as BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota build some of their vehicles here. Domestic carmakers, meanwhile, assemble popular models in other countries and import them to the U.S.
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Sounds like it's either the Toyota Avalon or the GM Large Crossover.
Regardless of where it's assembled, I would never think otherwise as to who designed and engineered a car. My MINI CooperS is in German with a French engine. Never once do I think it is British just because the pieces were put together there.
Keep in mind the when people in the US, claim "American" they ignorantly seem to over look that North America includes Canada and yes, Mexico as well. Anything built in Mexico and Canada is also "American." Who cares what the perception is, as long as the majority of manufacturing and development occurs in the States, it's worth buying and thus supporting our economy. My parents just bought a TL, and guess what, that car too was manufactured in the US.
Edmunds; as others wrote, why don't you provide the top 10 and the stats to back it up.
http://www.subaru-sia.com/
--Carroll Lachnit, features editor, Edm
Must be a new math which I never learned, of course I'm not an "expert in financial matters".
But the media gets advertising from most car companies, and likely more from the Detroit companies in US media. So why would the media pick on Detroit? It would be like shooting themselves in the foot.
Everything is global in that industry now, including executives, plants, vendors, currencies and stockholders. In fact, I believe Fiat Chrysler now has it corporate HQs in either Britain or the Netherlands, neither of which is where they actually produce their cars. Meanwhile Toyota is developing and designing some vehicles and components in the US, including at a relatively new engineering facility in Ann Arbor, MI. Ford has engineers and plants in places like Britain and Germany, and has had them there for many years. Same goes for GM, which has also heavily expanded its presence into China, while Ford is doing the same in India.