General Motors vehicles have, on average, more American content than any other automaker, according to a recent study performed by the Kogod School of Business at Washington’s American University.
The study found that 70.6% of the parts and materials that make up GM’s U.S. assembled vehicles came from within America. That figure drops to 58.2% when including the vehicles it builds abroad, but this still represents more average domestic content than any other manufacturer. Ford was second in this regard, with the Dearborn-based company using 67.6% domestic content for its U.S. based vehicles and 55% for all. Fiat Chrysler was third in the study with 64.1% domestic content for U.S.-made products and 55% for all of its vehicles.
Unfortunately, the Ford Ranger managed to displace the automatic version of the Chevrolet Corvette as the most American vehicle for 2020. The Ranger has 85% domestic content, putting it ahead of the automatic Chevrolet Camaro, which is second with 83%. The 2020 Corvette is tied for third with two other GM products, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks, with all three boasting 82% domestic content.
GM vehicles make up most of the top ten, as well. The Cadillac CT4 and CT5 sedans are tied with the Ford Explorer, Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model S for fifth at 77.5% domestic content, while the Cadillac XT4 is sixth with 77%. The manual Camaro, Cadillac XT5, Cadillac XT6 and GMC Acadia are also in a four-way tie for seventh at 76%.
Japanese automaker Honda lead the way among foreign automakers for domestic content in American-made vehicles at 62.6%. Volvo, a Swedish company that makes many of its products in Europe and China, was last with 30%.
“Looking at US content by brand illustrates the degree that manufacturers rely on US production across their product lines,” the Kogod School of Business said in a press release. “When looking at average total domestic content (TDC) by manufacturers for cars assembled in the US, one finds a high of GM, Ford, and Fiat Chrysler at 65-70 percent and a low of BMW and Volvo at 33 and 30 percent, respectively.”
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Just as I predicted.
“The study found that 70.6% of the parts and materials that make up GM’s U.S. assembled vehicles came from within America.” Does this include all of America (from Canada to Chile) or just the United States? My two previous GM vehicles were both assembled in Canada and are American. My preset Ford vehicle was assembled in Mexico and is also American.
Most people in the US seem to have a have a difficult time differentiating the United States from America which is the entire Western Hemisphere.
So does Mary Barra !
Yet, people still love to whine about final assembly point.
This is good as i didn’t think it would be as high as 70%.
The US Air Force announced this past week that they have successfully test flown a full size GEN 6 fighter jet that was manufactured using rapid prototyping equipment which makes you wonder how soon will it be until someone offers a kit to totally transform the appearance of the Chevrolet C8 Corvette using exterior body panels that are 3D printed.
Why does my CT5 sticker say 55% then? What am I missing?
I work at a gm dealership I’m not bashing on gm but 90 percent of my gm parts the package says either china or mexico, these are new parts going on new cars, yesterday brake pad replacement 19 silverado, mexico.
México is American, too.
United States and Canadian content is all that should matter. The rest of the America’s are third world countries.
They aren’t sending their best parts.
Does this mean USA?
Is this the “journalist” alternate universe where Tesla doesn’t exist?
I didn’t see Tesla in there, but their models range from 45-55%
How are those percentages calculated?
Parts – by number? By weight? By value?
What about materials like sheet metals of steel and aluminium which are not fully used — when some form is pressed out of a sheet, the rest is not being kept, but probably sold as first class scrap metal to be turned again in new sheet metal. How is this being counted in the percentages?
Bottom line is … GM..Ford.. Tesla are American companies bringing Billions INTO the US…
While Toyota … Honda … etc are Foreign companies sucking Billions OUT of the US!
Try to buy a Chevy in Japan … because of unfair trade it will cost you Twice as much as it does in the US …. why do you think there is not one GM, Ford or Tesla plant in Japan?….
Honestly, the Canyon and Colorado are the same truck so I’m sure that helps to be able to count the same truck twice.