Red Light Drama - Has something like this happened to you lately?

ricer333 · 07-13-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Robert_Nash

The automotive manufacturing business today is TRULY global; people who don’t understand that and what it means are either too stupid to understand, don’t care, or refuse to understand so as to remain confident in their wrong thinking.

What makes such people laughable is that they’ll rail against “foreign” cars and how people should “buy American” while concurrently loading up their Chevy or Dodge pick-up with Chinese made crap they bought at Wal-Mart.

By any objective measure you want to apply; most “foreign” nameplates are, as a whole, as “American” as are GM or Ford (and even the throw-backs can’t argue Chrysler is “American” with a straight face anymore)…if you look vehicle by vehicle, many “foreign” nameplates are more “American” than “domestic” brands. But those who think the like the guy you encountered at the red light are never going to let logic or reasoning or facts get in the way of their opinion.

I can understand the feelings of those who actually lived through/fought it WWII – if I had had some Japanese soldier shooting at me or had a friend or loved one die from a bomb dropped by a Japanese pilot I’d probably wouldn’t feel all that war and fuzzy about products coming from Japan either but for the rest, for those who weren’t “there”; those feelings have more to do with just plain hatred and very misplaced patriotism than anything else.

I will say that I've never had anyone be this blatantly ignorant with me in person but I sure run into it all the time on forums!

I like this quote. I came from a FORD family and my father had always bought Ford (I still remember riding around in the original Bronco as a kid - Oil burning smell and all). But when his F-150 died, he and the mother did the research. Hardly any Ford Trucks are actually manufactured in America anymore. To cut costs, most of the assembly is done down south of the border. However, the Toyota Tundra is assembled here. And to add to this Toyota is continuing to BUILD plants here in the U.S.

So while the American manufactures have been out-sourcing their parts/labor it seems that (in Toyota's case any way) the foreign manufactures are taking interest in manufacturing over here.

Robert_Nash · 07-13-2009, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ricer333

I like this quote. I came from a FORD family and my father had always bought Ford (I still remember riding around in the original Bronco as a kid - Oil burning smell and all). But when his F-150 died, he and the mother did the research. Hardly any Ford Trucks are actually manufactured in America anymore. To cut costs, most of the assembly is done down south of the border. However, the Toyota Tundra is assembled here. And to add to this Toyota is continuing to BUILD plants here in the U.S.

So while the American manufactures have been out-sourcing their parts/labor it seems that (in Toyota's case any way) the foreign manufactures are taking interest in manufacturing over here.

It's very likely this year that more "foreign" nameplate vehicles will be manufactured in the U.S. this year than will be manufactured by the so-called domestic manufacturers combined...in fact it's been true for several years now that most of the foreign nameplates build in the U.S. most of the vehicles they sell in the U.S.

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