Campfire Time wrote:
holstein13 wrote:
the silverback wrote:
Buy American!!!
As a matter of fact, every motorized vehicle I own today is an American brand. Even the car I own in France is a Ford. But as someone else said, cars today have parts that come from all over the world and Nissan, BMW, Toyota and many other foreign brands are made or assembled in the US now. So I'm not exactly sure what "Buy American" even means today.
Which is exactly why Motor Trend no longer has separate COTY awards for domestic and import. The only question you have to ask yourself is where does the profit end up?
I would imagine that the "profits" end up all over the world. There are lots of profits in parts, assembly plants, manufacturing plants, sales commissions, service, banking and financing, advertising and thousands of other aspects of every car sold in the US and cars sold abroad with American parts. But that still doesn't make a car "American." I doubt there is a car sold in America today that doesn't share it's "profits" across the world to some degree.
I'm afraid there is no good definition for "American" car today. I'm not saying that's good or bad.
