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John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
7/5/2016

Cars.com publishes an annual list of the most made in America vehicles. It always makes for easy reporting because the "American" automakers are typically not at the top of the list. "Man Bites Dog" stories being of interest to many. What struck this GM-Trucks.com fan is that not a single GM Truck makes the list of 8 "US Made" vehicles on Cars.com's list. Why?

 

The reason, as Cars.com explains it, is that to earn that title a vehicle must rise above a "75-percent eligibility threshold for domestic-parts content." In other words, even if the vehicle is banged together in Arlington Texas, or Wentzville, Missouri, it does not necessarily mean it is "American Made."

 

Had we not recently reported that GM had to shut down many of its North American production facilities due to lack of Japanese-made parts, we may have skipped this story. That GM just had to stop making its vehicles because of an earthquake in Japan illustrates Cars.com's point that most vehicles made are now really international.

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The chart above is interesting. It shows the impact of the vehicles that do have more than 75% U.S. sourced content and are made in the U.S. To GM's credit, it has three vehicles on this list. FCA US (Chrysler, Ram, Dodge) has zero as does Ford.

 

Click here to read the full Cars.com report.

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Welcome to the 21st century. A global economy.

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This story John reminds me of way back when, when Ford declared the Crown Victoria as an import model just to meet CAFE standards across the segment. This was a good 20 years ago, and their 'import' tag was accomplished by the vehicle, or a greater percentage of the components (is it may have been) to be produced in Mexico. That of course helped them keep making the Crown Vic's, alongside their other models being Mustangs, Escorts and the like that were mostly being produced here in the states, AND kept the EPA off their backs.

 

Never did look at the Cop Car though and say to myself... "Self.... that there is an import!" ROFTL

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