General Motors is best known for its hulking SUVs and trucks, but they don’t make the 2018 American-Made Index, compiled by Cars.com.
In fact, just two GM vehicles made the list this year, and they may not be the most obvious guesses. The 2018 Chevrolet Volt and 2018 Chevrolet Corvette made the list, while Honda, Ford and Jeep rounded out the rest of the top 10. Four of the most American models listed actually hail from Honda.
The Volt ranks in fifth place, while the Corvette rounded up the top 10 in tenth place. The Jeep Cherokee ranked number one.
The list looks at 100 vehicles built in the United States to analyze their part contents and discover just how American they actually are. The list also excluded low-volume models that sell under 2,500 units per year and heavy-duty trucks.
The full list reads as follows:
1. Jeep Cherokee: Belvidere, Ill.
2. Honda Odyssey: Lincoln, Ala.
3. Honda Ridgeline: Lincoln, Ala.
4. Ford Taurus: Chicago, Ill.
5. Chevrolet Volt: Detroit, Mich.
6. Honda Pilot: Lincoln, Ala.
7. Acura MDX: East Liberty, Ohio
8. Ford Explorer: Chicago, Ill.
9. Ford F-150: Claycomo, Mo., and Dearborn, Mich.
10. Chevrolet Corvette: Bowling Green, Ky.
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So, rightwingers, should the President of Japan start saying sheet like “Stop sending Honda jobs overseas” ??? Shouldn’t Ohio Joe just lay down and give his job “back” to Japan “where it belongs” ??? Isn’t Ohio Joe some kind of traitor, either to America, or Japan, or maybe he’s a traitor to both, right? Oh, does your head hurt from too much ambiguity? What the hell does ambiguity mean? Er…
Right winger response-lower taxes so corporate Honda decides to move HQ to America so we can benefit from their office jobs and be more competitive with Honda sales oversees. Also, the things here that they are counting here isn’t actual cars for the most part, but the actual parts. Most “American” brand cars are manufactured in America, but the seats and radio are sourced from Peru and china. If you make the seats in America, suddenly that car is more American? Right wing ideology is more of americans are great builders, so why are we killing our jobs to support union bosses and socialism bums?
Er,
America is killing jobs, but, Honda is creating HQ jobs and car-parts jobs, right here in America. And that’s why they moved here? They killed jobs in Japan to come here and create jobs in Ohio just before America kills their jobs.
Uh Huh! Rightwinger response all right…
I see you say Honda loves lower taxes in America.
But what you DON’T say, and that absence is telling, is where therefore do the extra PROFITS go? That would be Japan, right?
Uh huh! Rightwing response all right.
Jake, They already have a Honda USA HQ. They won’t move the mothership but they in fact have office jobs. Just like GM has places all over the world. Corporations are world wide and we live in a world wide economy. Only small minded people like Trump don’t understand how the economy works
All cars made in Japan are union.. Their unions are much stronger than America’s. In Japan doctors and lawyers make the lowest wages. Germany has the strongest unions in the world. They get what they want.
In America we have racist greedy Nazi Republicans. We also have stupid Americans that forget the history of the labor movement. Where do think the 40 hour week, healthcare,retirement, vacation and other benefits came from??>The companies and greedy owners did not just give them to you. Most all benefits and wages came from UNIONS.
“Isn’t Ohio Joe some kind of traitor, either to America, or Japan, or maybe he’s a traitor to both, right?”
You can’t call a man a traitor because he doesn’t vote like you do now, or that he doesn’t vote like he did years ago. A man can change his mind. Everyone, even people you would call your ‘political enemies’ are entitled to that much personal autonomy.
Most people and the media miss the point of the tarriffs – if a lot of our products are taxed by other coutries, we’ll start taxing them. Of course, these other countries politically ignore their old taxes and offer new taxes to counter our new ones. It’s a bargaining tactic, with the end goal being free trade, and hopefully no tarriffs. Also to be included in fair trade is equal playing grounds on social and environmental concerns – we cannot compete with countries that dump their industrial waste and overwork people for paltry wages. So – either compete on an equal and fair playing field, or face a tarriff. I’m tired of the US being treated as a fool as well!
The “equal playing ground” as a cross-Atlantic free trade zone was the intention of TTIP, but that was thrown in the dustbin in favor of destruction by Mr. Trump assuming the POTUS office.
TTIP = Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Trump does not want partners, but vassals.
But nobody can roll back history.
Although the foreign brands build in the U.S. they are never “American”. The cost of labor per vehicle is a few hundred dollars, yet the foreign brands make thousands in profit for the same vehicle. What is more important, jobs or money? Buying any foreign brand is sending money abroad and losing jobs in the U.S.
BTW, be careful when defining “American”, because every nation in the Western or American Hemisphere is “American”. This include Canada and Mexico. So a GM or Ford vehicle assembled in Canada or Mexico is sill “American” (North American). The real name of our nation is “The United States of America” which is just defining a Union of States in the American Hemisphere. That isn’t a real name!
“Most “American” brand cars are manufactured in America, but the seats and radio are sourced from Peru and china.”
Peru is “American” as one of the South American nations.
That is so incredibly false. You would be shocked at the Chinese content of all brands built in America and how many American branded cars are not built in the US. Ever heard of Mexico?
So you suggest that people outside the USA should stop buying cars by GM and Ford, because “Buying any foreign brand is sending money abroad and losing jobs in the” home country?
Handing over Chevrolet Brasilia to VW, GM Holden to Hyundai and Shanghai GM to SAIC?
all of the president’s schlock is made in other countries but he has the gall to tell others what to do? incredible.
The Chinese government are issuing patents to Ivanka in order to get favourable treatment by Trump. Trump lifted all restrictions on ZTE despite strong opposition by national security agencies. This is kleptocracy at its best.
The conman has fooled 50% of the US population and least educated.
The attack on ZTE shows the Chinese that they have to become independent of the US chip industry and develop their own basic electronics industry.
Stop assembling Apple phones from imported components, and start developing their own building blocks of electronics.
Call back and bring home all those Chinese, Indians, Africans and Eurpeans who develop this stuff in the US “Silicon Valley” and leave the US alone with their muscle cars.
Globalization, why do we want it? Canada exports beef to the US, then imports beef from Argentina. Sounds more like a make work project than anything else.
The US exports oil/gas and imports it from Canada, the Middle East and many other sources. Another make work project?
When you don’t understand the world, it’s easy to come up with simple solutions. The world is highly complex, open your mind.
The only reason they do that is, due to a lack of a pipeline to the coast, Canada has to sell to the US at a steep discount, we cannot move our product, the US can sell to Asia at full price. I read many comments on other websites where Texans thank BC everyday for their Texas prosperity.
According to Statistics Canada, Quebec has over twice as many pork farms than Alberta, but my nephew used to haul boxed pork from Alberta to Quebec. My nephew even said it made no sense, but it gave him a job.
The cost of transportation is relatively cheap. That’s why you see so many trucks on the road. Increase that cost and things would change.
the name of the game is make all you can, make shareholders happy. When was the last time you had a car company go private???? All companies are on the great Casino on Wall street. Just last year GM had 176,000 shares just lying around and the board decided to give them to CEO Mary T. Barra. Mary sold them for $35 a share and picked up a cool $7 million for a day’s ass kissing.
If the CEO was a man, would you have made the same comment. Mullally made over 47 million on his last year at Ford.
GM has been described as being currently the best managed in their entire history.
Canada is the stupidest country in the world, we have the 3rd largest oil reserve in the world but we have to import oil because we can’t even get pipelines built across our own country. But then foreign countries maybe wouldn’t buy Canadian made military vehicles if we didn’t buy their oil.
thinking about buying a Corvette..the prices for 2018 and 2019 Vettes in Florida are going down. There are some small dealers with 10 and 15 Vettes sitting around. Saw a 2019 for $49k and saw a 2016 with 3,000 miles for $42k. Z71 trucks made in Mexico $14000 off. $52,000 Z71 for $39k. The 2019 trucks are UGLY, I think GM must have hired some Koreans to design new trucks. What would Japanese and Koreans do with Z71s in their homeland?? Gas is over $4.00 a gallon.
The F-150 is starting to sink in the rankings. I noticed the other day that the 2017 Raptor had a domestic parts content of 70%. The 2018 Raptor’s domestic parts content is now just 52% and the 3.5 Ecoboost is listed as being made in Mexico. I guess that’s what Ford spent that $1 billion on down in Mexico.
Mexico and Canada still count as domestic. Ford is sourcing a ton of products from China. Like many US companies, China is the answer to every problem.
Canada is considered domestic but the NHTSA doesn’t count Mexico as domestic content. But you are right. Ford has invested heavily in engine plants in China the past few years.
Tyson raising their chickens in USA and then freezes them. Tyson ships frozen chicken to China, they process them. Then Tyson ships them back to USA for dumb Americas to buy. Walmart has most of their seafood imported from China and Thailand. The name of the game is HIGHER PROFITS by using cheap slave labor, sometimes children. Thump is trying to change labor laws in America so children can work in factories. Thump says young girls as young as 14 years old are good workers(cheap). Companies would not have to pay fair wages.
That list is NOT based on the right criteria. Spend 15 minutes here and you’ll see a much truer picture:
https://www.american.edu/kogod/research/autoindex/