Sign Of The Times: Camry Tops “Most American Vehicle” List

[Jim Higgins]

Sign Of The Times: Camry Tops �Most American Vehicle� List
http://tinyurl.com/mhqkkl

Cars.com tackles the tough question of domestic content in its latest
�American Made Index,� and comes away with a surprising result: Toyota�s
Camry is the most �American� car on the market. Of course, making these
distinctions in a global industry is fraught with difficulty. Though
percentage of domestic parts content is tracked by the NHTSA for
American Automobile Labeling Act compliance (PDF), those numbers count
US and Canadian parts as being �domestic�. So Cars.com has created its
own list which requires US assembly, at least 75 percent US-sourced
parts content, and factors in sales numbers because �they correlate to
the number of U.S. autoworkers employed to build any given model and to
build the parts that go into those same cars.� Taking out vehicles that
are being canceled with no clear replacement, the following vehicles
make up their top ten �most American� automobiles.

1. Toyota Camry (Georgetown, KY; Lafayette, IN)

2. Ford F-150 (Dearborn, MI; Claycomo, MO)

3. Chevrolet Malibu (Kansas City, KS)

4. Honda Odyssey (Lincoln, AL)

5. Chevrolet Silverado 1500 (Fort Wayne, IN)

6. Toyota Sienna (Princeton, IN)

7. Toyota Tundra (San Antonio, TX)

8. GMC Sierra 1500 (Fort Wayne, IN)

9. Ford Taurus (Chicago, IL)

10. Toyota Venza (Georgetown, KY)

In short, only half of the top ten �most American� vehicles are actually
made the Detroit automakers (and only one-third are made by the
taxpayer-owned firms). Of course, a lot of that has to do with Detroit�s
tanking sales numbers, as well as GM�s slashing of its Pontiac line
(disqualifying its vehicles on the �no obvious replacement� front.
Still, former AMI perennials like the Chevy Cobalt have fallen off the
list because their percentage of domestic parts content has actually
fallen. While none of this is conclusive in terms of measuring impacts
on the American economy, it�s another interesting look at an industry
that is far too complicated to measure in terms of pure nationality.

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[Larry]

Jim Higgins <gordi...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:P_mdnaw7pNGn5M_X...@posted.eaglecomputertechnology:

> Sign Of The Times: Camry Tops "Most American Vehicle" List
> http://tinyurl.com/mhqkkl
>
>

Now, what needs to be done is to correlate this list with the most
complaints and biggest lemons list to see if there's any relationship
between WHERE it's made as to how good it is, no matter who its parent
company is.....

I'd like to see that analysis, myself.

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[PerfectReign]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:22:49 -0400, Jim Higgins fired up the
etcha-a-sketch and scratched out:

> Sign Of The Times: Camry Tops “Most American Vehicle” List

> http://tinyurl.com/mhqkkl
>
> Cars.com tackles the tough question of domestic content in its latest

> “American Made Index,

And of course, my midsize Chevy truck is 100% built in Mexico.

Go figure!

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