brulaz wrote:
RobertRyan wrote:
ShinerBock wrote:
Just like the bulk of our vehicles are designed and engineered here.
They certainly are not. Tell me which ones?
Robert, you forget that the best-selling American vehicles are American style pickups. Styled and Engineered, and sometimes built in the US. With the occasional exception, like the subject of this thread.
Correct, Pickups make up the best selling segments in the US, Australia and Canada.
Canada and Australia have roughly 14% of sales devoted to Pickups, US 11% Not all of the engineering in a fact a lot is done elsewhere outside the US.
Pickups do not make up the bulk of vehicles sold in any market. I notice the Japanese sell a lot of vehicles in the US and they and the Koreans, and all the other non NA manufacturers contribute to the " bulk" of vehicles sold.
In 2011, Japanese brands reaped 36 percent of all U.S. new-car sales, according to Automotive News. European carmakers, by contrast, had 9.8 percent. A decade ago, Japanese brands had 28.5 percent of the market, while European brands had just 7.6 percent.
In 2016 GM and Ford made up 32% of all vehicles sold in the US. FCA is now a foreign entity. What percentage is foreign engineered GM, Ford and FCA?It would appear to be a lot
Halcyon days when everything was built and engineered in the US are long gone. Trump gets Kudos from me in trying to bring manufacturing back to the US
