General Motors overshadows the Made in America Automotive Index for the second year in a row. The list is comprised at the American University’s Kogod School of Business. This year GM’s Chevrolet Corvette Stingray tied for first place and seventeen other GM vehicles tied themselves up with others in the top ten list including the Traverse, Equinox, Express, Malibu, Impala, Suburban and Tahoe. The other vehicles that made top ten rankings are the GMC Acadia, Acadia Denali, Terrain, Savana and Yukon, Cadillac CTS, Escalade and ATS, along with the Buick Enclave and LaCrosse.
The index is written by global supply chain management expert and professor at American University, Frank DuBois. The Kogod lineup is based on data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The list divides 318 cars based on:
- Profit Margin: Location of the automaker’s global headquarters
- Labor: Location of assembly
- Research & Development: Location of R&D activities
- Transmission: Location of production
- Inventory, Capital and Other Expenses: Location of assembly
- Engine: Location of production
- The Labeling Act “Domestic Content” Score
Numerous factors are considered in this index that aren’t considered in the American Automotive Labeling Act making this list more thorough.
“This index undoubtedly provides Americans with a more defined explanation of the actual origin of a vehicle and its purchasing impact on the U.S. economy,” said Gerald Johnson, GM’s North America Manufacturing vice president, in a press release.
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And yet crew cab pickups are imported from Mexico with 60% Mexican parts and 40% Canadian/America parts
1500 Crew Cabs are built in Silao, Mexico. Get your facts right before you want to start an argument. Besides, what difference does it make? Profits still stay in The U.S. don’t they? I think we can stop this mess now.
I stated that crew cab pickups are “imported from Mexico” and I’m correct, as these trucks have to cross the border in order to get to dealers here in the states, just as the camaro is imported from Canada. So Evan I’m pretty sure I have my facts straight. As for what difference it makes, it makes a huge difference, instead of building the highest volume configurations of the 1/2 ton trucks where GM can provide nice jobs to the American people where they can also spend their hard earned cash in the same country, GM decides to provide jobs for the people of Mexico, which they’ll take and spend in Mexico as well. There’s always two sides to an argument Evan, try to be a little more open minded.
You stated that “crew cab pickups” are imported from Mexico. You are right about them being imported from Silao, but you made it sound like all crew cabs came from Mexico where really, it’s only the 1500’s. As of now, GM employs 1.2 Million U.S. Citizens. As long as they are still bringing profit back to my country (which they are), I could care less where *some* of their automobiles are built. I am not an idiot, don’t you dare treat me like one hafeez_h. Why don’t you work on that attitude before you come back to GMA..
I asked you to look at my side of the argument, I’m not trying to insult you. If you took my last comment as an insult, then I apologize as I’m only trying to get you to look at my side of the argument as I’ve stated earlier. As for making “it sound like all crew cabs came from Mexico,” I admit I that is incorrect, and I should have payed attention to what I was typing. Also I actually do know that not all crew cabs are built in Mexico, but a lot of them are, and customers actually look at the window sticker to see where the vehicle was built and the amount of American parts in it. Most customers don’t care where the profits are going like a lot of us on GMA do, heck most Customers in the US consider A Toyota Camry to be an American car lol.
do you realize that not all of them are from Mexico???
Last I checked Mexico and Canada were both located in America.
They are located in the Americas.. but no one, absolutely no one, refers to Canada or Mexico as being as such any more.. Do you still refer to North and South America as “The West” or “The New World”?
Americas vs American are very-very different.
Lets hear from some Canadians. And maybe some Mexicans. Do you think you are no longer part of America?
Inquiring minds want to know!
They were never part of America. They ARE part of the Americas, however. But like I said no one refers to it as such any more. I feel like I’m just repeating myself.
Andrew is correct. Mexico and Canada, and all the nations south of Mexico are American nations. What most guys like you believe that you are the only “Americans”. The official name of the “United States of America” means that the original colonies became a Union of sovereign States in the American Hemisphere. So everyone in the same Hemisphere is American, either North or South according to the continent. So any vehicle built in a GM owned factory in North America is American, and that includes Canada and Mexico, but belong to a company in the United States.
If you still don’t like it, blame the Europeans for invading this Hemisphere, putting an Italian name on the continents (the correct name would had been Columbia), and killing off all the natives, while imposing European languages such as English, French and Spanish (a little Portuguese, too).
Don’t blame the peace loving people of Europa. There were 500 nations here that could not get along. The Europeans provided stability. Born in the USA is like wining the lottery you are living among the top 15% of the planet. So quit your bitching.
“Lets hear from some Canadians. And maybe some Mexicans. Do you think you are no longer part of America?”
Canadian here.
In a formal sense, Greenlanders, Canadians, Mexicans, Americans, Brazilians, Peruvians, Cubans, Argentinians, Panamanians, Venezuelans, Haitians, and 930 million other people are Americans as they/we live in the Americas.
To be less formals, when I say ‘Americans’, I’m referring to a citizen of the ‘States. Although the word “America” could also describe a citizen who lives in North or South America, 99% of the time I would be speaking of a citizen of the US. “States”, “US”, “Yanks”, they all mean pretty much the same thing to me.
Even the formal name of the US isn’t really a name, but rather a description of country. “The United States of America” means a collection of states within the Americas; the very thing that could also mean a collection of nations within the Americas. It’s a weird but it works for the Americans.
Another thing. Cars made in Canada shouldn’t get special consideration and exceptions when describing them as made in America. It wouldn’t make sense to include them in a total of which car company has the most American made vehicles. A car made in Canada is a car made in Canada, and is not the in the US. Counting cars made in Canada as those made in the US is asinine and dishonest.
So to answer your question, while I may be an American with respect to the continents of the ‘new world’, I’m not an American citizen. Also, the cars built here could not be classified as ‘American built’ anymore than the Japanese cars built here could not be called ‘Japanese built’.
Last I checked canada and Mexico were two independent countries and not part United States of America (you know the country we both probably live in).
You are very right 62vetteefp! As for you andrew, did he ever say they were American? I didn’t think so. He said that Canada and Mexico are located in America (North). Maybe if you weren’t being so blind I wouldn’t have to repeat that. . .
America=USA
Americas(North)=USA+Canada+Mexico
And this article specifically states “American Made”
Go back to grade school, Evan.
I think someone is getting a little butthurt. It’s okay, I’m sure hafeez_h will kiss it for you. Mexico and Canada are not part of The United States of America and we know that, but they are all part of North America.
You know what? I didn’t think I saw Silverado and/or Sierra in this article in the first place. I guess I don’t need to go back to school after all now do I? You should go to the mental asylum because you’re out of your mind and are a danger to our society.
“I think someone is getting a little butthurt. It’s okay, I’m sure hafeez_h will kiss it for you.”
I understand Andrew is keeping a dumb argument going, but was this really a necessary statement to make?
And were exactly did I mention Silverado/Sierra? There’s that failed reading comprehension showing itself again.
Refer to Grawdaddy’s thorough and well said post, it’s pretty long and zero pictures but I’m if you go slow you can manage.
And were exactly did I mention Silverado/Sierra? There’s that failed reading comprehension showing itself again.
Refer to Grawdaddy’s thorough and well said post, it’s pretty long and zero pictures but I’m if you go slow you can manage. Keep fighting the good fight little guy.
I wasn’t pointing that directly at you. This whole thing is about the Silverado/Sierra and you can thank the first comment for that (no offense)..
You know people would be confused when companies would just say their products are made in the America since like certain people said Canada and Mexico are part of it…. and plus does anybody even say “Americas”???