When it comes to buying a new car, customers usually have a long list of concerns and criteria to consider, with many buyers often investigating just how “American-made” their prospective new vehicle may be. Now, according to one recent study, GM doesn’t even make the top-ten list.
In a recent report, automotive website Cars.com listed the results of its latest American-Made Index, which ranks new vehicles on five criteria, including assembly location, parts content, country of origin for the engine, country of origin for the transmission, and U.S. manufacturing workforce. Now in its third year, the latest 2022 study examined 95 vehicles total, with each vehicle ranked on a 100-point scale, with heavier curb weights functioning as a tiebreaker when needed.
According to the report, the top-ranked GM vehicle in the latest American-Made Index is the Chevy Corvette, which slots in at 11th place on the list. Produced at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky, the Vette slid considerably between 2021 and 2022, and was previously ranked fifth overall on the 2021 list.
At the top of the 2022 list is the Tesla Model Y, which is produced in Fremont, California, and Austin, Texas. Previously, the Model Y was third on the 2021 Index list. Just below the Model Y is another Tesla, specifically, the Model 3, which is also produced in Fremont. The Model 3 was previously first on the list for 2021. Rounding out the top three is the Lincoln Corsair, produced in Louisville, Kentucky. Interestingly, the Corsair shot up the rankings this year, previously coming in at 64th for the 2021 list.
Other notable GM vehicles for the 2022 list include the GMC Canyon in 12th, the Chevy Colorado in 13th, the Chevy Malibu in 27th, and the Chevy Camaro in 28th.
Although GM did not rank well in this latest study from Cars.com, The General did considerably better in the 2021 Kogod School of Business index, with the Corvette slotting in at second place overall.
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We live in a global economy. Unfortunately, it is what it is.
Why pay a US Union worker $30 per hour to install a car door, when you can pay an overseas (non-Union) worker $30 per day to do the same thing? You reap what you sow.
BTW, not only do I own several late-model GM's, but my Dad was a Union worker for ~40 years.
This is a what tariffs are for. You reap what you sow? Unions built the US middle class and without them we won't have a middle class. European automakers thrive with strong union participation
Tesla 3 in top Five and four in Top Six spots.....GM not in the Top ten.
My how the World has changed.
Actually, it's more how the influencing power has changed.
Pathetic. Much thanks to unions for screwing more people out of jobs.
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again, Jimmy Hoffa was the only good union leader ever.
And your point would be what? Presumably, that unions should surrender and that North American workers should accept the same substandard wages/benefits as the exploited workers in these third-world sweatshops being utilized by the manufacturers as a means of eliminating jobs here?
Yes. The "middle class" has outgrown its usefulness in our current age. All we need are haves (me) and have nots (you).
Are you saying the Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai plants in the US are all sweatshops? Why isn't anyone doing something about that? Why would people chose to even work there?
Having known multiple factory floor workers, yes Asian plants are sweatshops. Anybody who's worked at an Asian shop and a non-Asian shop will wholeheartedly agree; never heard anything to the contrary.
Find out how many assemblers actually get to retire from them! Honda was famous for firing 27-29 yr seniority people.
More like piss poor management at gm over the past 40 years.
Come on Chapter 7!
Time for GM to be Liquidated and left in the ash heap of history.
As long as it remains an American owned company I can live with outsourcing parts as needed.
My Silverado was built just up the road in Ft. Wayne, IN and that works for me. It’s a great truck!
Tesla isn't a car it's a "gadget."
This is basically just sticking your head in the sand. That attitude is how you end up behind the competition.
I'm sure there were old guys saying similar things when electric starters were being offered on someone else's car. Or air conditioning, cruise control, power windows, etc.
A subsidized gadget.
WE live in a NORTH AMERICA economy, NAFTA. Canada and Mexico. This is the way CONGRESS set it up. The rating should be for North America-built autos.
I don't actually live in NAFTA. Neither does anyone else. That would be like putting up the flag of NATO or the UN at your house. This reads like a strange mental contortion to justify the fact that your favorite corporation would rather build things in another country.
Anyway, NAFTA was replaced a couple of years ago.
Once again we see what is most important to General Motors, they've got the ability, the talent and the money to match and beat all others (including Mighty Tesla) at this "Most American" game, but they chose to not compete. Why? Well, my guess would be that GM has some of the best engineers and worst executives in the industry, throw in a very capable work force and you've got an obvious reason why GM is where it's at in the industry. They are "exactly" where management wants it to be, utilizing all of it's vast resources to procure...a mediocre performing industry giant. Sort of makes you wonder doesn't it? Just like our government, which has the capability of outperforming every country in the world but chooses not to, it's not that America can't compete on all levels, it's that America's "Executives" choose not to do this, so now you see the similarities between General Motors Corporation and our US Government.
Both can "kick ass and take names", if they wanted to, but choose not to...they'd both rather "perform on a lower level" allowing themselves to be ridiculed for doing things this way, but somehow making gobs of money while creating a totally convoluted way of running things that tends to create more problems than it fixes.
I've said it before and I'll repeat myself because sometimes not enough people who have the power to make things better for these two (GM and The Government) either don't care or are held back from fixing what's wrong....it's the top exec's decision (Mary Barra and Joe Biden) and everyone that works directly for them two "Knuckleheads" to create a problematic atmosphere by making wrong decision after wrong decision while still remaining in their respective offices!
America does have some of the "brightest stars in the world" (and no, I'm not talking about those pathetic Hollywood Elitist, sheesh!) when it comes to having the capability to outperform everyone, world wide in manufacturing and in businesses in general, however we continue to see both of these "World Giants" performing way below their actual capabilities, and guess who's to blame for this scenario...yep, The Top Brass. Okay, 'nuff said, lets the "backlash" come forward, I'm ready.
GM needs new leadership.
I agree 100%. Mary has to go.
Then why are they doing so much better in China, where the only real difference is the workforce?
As the Chinese Communists steal more and more of our industrial power, they are creating more haves, on the backs of have-nots. Let's not forget the Chinese population is three and a half times ours. Thus more "haves" buying stuff we design and engineer. No R&D expense for the Chinese, as they steal our innovations.
In China most corporations are 51% owned by CCP. So every job is a government job. Disrespect your boss get canes or sent to re education camp. Break something expensive - disappear forever. That kind of thing makes a bit of difference.
Isn’t Tesla a computer app?