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Is there a true 100% made U.S.A. car/truck

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Well since people want to jump on Toyota for there problems then answer this. Is there any true U.S.A. car/truck company that has only 100% true U.S.A. cars?? I know GM used Suzuki and Toyota stuff. Ford uses Mazda stuff and Dodge uses Mitsubishi so then I guess you can not buy a true American car or truck now days with out also spending money in some way in Japan.
As for the recalls show me one company that has never had one don't think you can find one.
Shoot even the Willy's jeep of WW2 had upgrades because of things going on in the war
 
great minds think alike Old...everybody is entitled to have a off day,especially when all this fly by wire on auto's is such new technology...i worked for or on Ford's and other domestics most of my career...people wonder why i bought a Toy :]
 
Last study I read, done two years ago - Toyotas sold in the USA had more USA sourced parts than Ford and GM.

Also, you'd have to define what is "made in USA."
USA sourced steel, USA sourced tooling used in manufacture, USA designs, etc. I don't even thing you're going to find any factory in the USA that makes anything - that is using USA built and sourced equipment/tooling.

Sad thing is, much of the original USA designed and built tooling to make cars, trucks, and tractors is all overseas now - being used to make some pretty neat stuff in other countries (stuff that we got tired of). A lot of two-cylinder Deere stuff in in Brazil.
 
"""You're right, there isn't, but would I buy a 100% American made car or truck if I could? You betcha!!! """

Due to the pig unions, a 100% American made car would cost around $700,000.00 and never get done because one of the unions would always be on striking whining about something.
 
I've heard that two cylinders are still being made in South America. If so, what would be the possibility of shipping one home?
 
The thing that I don't like is that these foreign transplant plants use our electricity, water, sewer systems, etc and pollute over here so that they can take their profits home. And that is the name of the game, getting the money.
 
What's interesting is NAASCAR runs Fords, Chevys, Dodges, and Toyotas, and of the models they run, Toyotas are the only ones made in the U.S.

The Fords are made in Mexico, and Chevys and Dodges are made in Canada.
 
Two things here:
1)Even US car makers use Canadian built parts.
2) Recalls can and have happened to about any company that has shipped many units, that is not the issue. The real snake in the wood pile is how they tried to brush it off as "faulty floor mats". Then, they continued to ignore it as more complaints piled up. The view to their thinking for this is the way that they have mishandled the brake system problems on the Prius- with the same turn the head and ignore it hoping it would go away.
Too many companies want all of the rewards, but NONE of the risks. Unfortunatley, they go hand in hand.
No company should ever be in a positon to be garanteed a profit.
Even now, they are stating that the sticking foot pedals are "rare". Maybe so, but all of the people that have been killed because of them are "well done".
 
I drive a union made car (FORD), over 200,000 miles, doesn't burn any oil, no problems. and it did not cost $700,000. The profits all went to an American company, not the people that gave us Dec. 7, 1941, 2,400 sailors lost their lives that day.
 
People are making such a negative light out of this recall. Really, it should be seen as a positive and we should applaud toyota. Think of all the safety issues that have not been recalled...side gas tanks, dodge dakota/durango ball joints, etc.
 
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You're right, there isn't, but would I buy a 100% American made car or truck if I could? You betcha!!!
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Well then, just zip out and buy an Edsel. That should be old enough to be all domestic production parts, at a guess. Perhaps a Hudson or a Studebaker. They are available, go get one.
 
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(quoted from post at 12:24:21 02/04/10)
You're right, there isn't, but would I buy a 100% American made car or truck if I could? You betcha!!!
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Well then, just zip out and buy an Edsel. That should be old enough to be all domestic production parts, at a guess. Perhaps a Hudson or a Studebaker. They are available, go get one.
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I had a 1971 Ford F100, purchased new by my father, but I quit driving it just two years ago because it finally got to the point that I could not stay ahead of the rust. Show me a Japanese made truck that is still on the road 37 years after it was built.
 
I have a 1974 Datsun B210 that I stopped driving because of stripped out rock arm mounting holes for the bolts. If I did a heli coil in them it would problem still be on the road so it is sort of a back up for may back up if I ever really need a car
 
Sort of interesting that the failing part was supplied by as US submanufacturer. Stop production order was for US manufacture mostly as those were the cars,etc getting the US made throttle assembly. Getting the parts from low bidder sometimes doesn't work quite right. (stirring the pot here, haven't had my coffee yet;^). RN
 
Thinking about lowest bidder think about all the ships, tanks, airplanes etc that we have to go to war in and they are all built by the lowest bidder. And then what about the space shuttle that in its self is scary
 
I had an 100% American-made Jeep truck that was made in the 1980s. The parts came from the US and Canada and Chrysler assembled it in Mexico. Oh wait, you probably didn't mean North American. Oh well, I'm sure there were some European parts mixed in there anyway.
 
They may pack some of the profits home but the Toyota plant in Southern IN dumps a great deal of money in our local economy before they ship their cut over to Japan. It's the only place around here that folks will quit the coal mines to go to work. They sponser more local events than any other company around here ever has. When they went from doing pickups to SUV's a year or two ago they did not lay any one off. They had the production workers help the construction crew redo the lines for the Sienna. While production was down they sent production workers out to clean and fix up local parks and other community service projects. Paid them all their $20 some odd an hour and did not cost the cities and counties anything but a little paint.

Dave
 
just bought a Mazda Tribute, a twin to the Ford Escape. Both built on the same line in Kansas City, both use auto tranny built in US (optional standard 5 speed built in Japan), both have Mexican motor. I think I have a Japanese car that no Japanese person has touched. If the Escape did not have a standard upgrade sound system I would have got one, but I could buy the Tribute for hundreds less than the Ford. (wife liked the Mazda better also)

Sorry to bring some folks abruptly into the new world, but it is a global economy. American car companies, and especially the arrogant, greedy unions, lost the quality game in the '70s. Told us to "buy American" junk instead of foreign quality. Americans are smarter than that. They are getting better, but they are sleeping in the bed they made.
 
Ya ain't' it a shame they pay for the water and sewer and fuel and also pay taxes and employee wages built the plant with American labor and if you look at what Kia did in Ga.that plant is 100% cleaner than any plant in Detroit.
 
I know how it is. Trying to stay ahead of the rust on my 78 f 150 custom and at the same time trying to repair all the quick fixes and rust damage already present. Was a NE ohio plow truck for many years before I saved it from the scrap man. Bought with 329908 on it (talked to previous owners) and still going all original.
 
There's a '28 Plymouth at an auction coming up near me. Paper says it runs good. Also lots of parts for it.

Christopher
 
I think that the corvette is pretty close...the brakes are from australia, but everything else is from the US.
 
To keep it on topic, tractors are the same.

A county was looking to buy a USA road grader, and found they had to buy a Japaneese branded grader as it was mostly built in the USA, while the JD they had their eye on turned out to be more Japaneese made.

Funny.

My 1970's tractors have a lot of Gret Brition & Canada tags on them.

--->Paul
 
(quoted from post at 16:11:32 02/04/10) I think that the corvette is pretty close...the brakes are from australia, but everything else is from the US.
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orvette-70%. The best you can do (USA + Canada) is Ford Crown Victoria & it's sister Marc Grand Marquis at 90%.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that my 7.3 liter Powerstroke in my F-250 is a Japanese design made by IH, the same engine used in IH school buses. Where is the engine manufactured? Just curious. C.L.
 
You are mistaken, Ford tore down a plant a few years back and built a really modern one on the same site, could have been the Rouge. U.S. auto plants are not as nasty are your Japanese friends would like you to believe.
 
We get our cars from foreign countries.

We get our presidents from foreign countries.
We get our money from foreign countries.

Three cheers for hopey changey.
 
Well you can buy one but they stopped making them back in the late sixties and early seventies. LOL. Now a days all the manufacturers buy components from the same suppliers world wide. There's really not much difference between any of them. I know Johnson Controls used to make seat frames for Ford F series trucks and sold the same seat frame to Mercedes for use in the M Class.
 
You bring up a good point, most of the writers of the constitution were probably foreigners.

"Seven of the thirty-nine signers of the Constitution at Philadelphia were foreign-born, as were countless thousands of the voters who helped ratify the Constitution"
 
Navistar (Modern-day IH) has engine plants all over the world - USA, Germany, Argentina,GB, India, etc.
 
The Willis jeep of WW2 was not made by Mahindra. Not any that I ever seen or drove . If there was they were used in India or foreign country amd that would have been very few. They were made by a lot of companies here in the US including Willys, Ford, GM, Studebaker and maybe Chrysler.
 
(quoted from post at 22:43:08 02/04/10) The Willis jeep of WW2 was not made by Mahindra. Not any that I ever seen or drove . If there was they were used in India or foreign country amd that would have been very few. They were made by a lot of companies here in the US including Willys, Ford, GM, Studebaker and maybe Chrysler.
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yep, wolfman had a brain f#%& on that one!
 
(quoted from post at 16:56:02 02/04/10) You bring up a good point, most of the writers of the constitution were probably foreigners.

"Seven of the thirty-nine signers of the Constitution at Philadelphia were foreign-born, as were countless thousands of the voters who helped ratify the Constitution"
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Well gee, think of the time frame here. We were a very young country. There hadn't been enough time yet to produce "home-grown" leaders.
 
How many tractors are true 100% American?
How many parts can you buy that are made in America? My cell phone was made in china. Does anyone besides Ross Prowe hear a great sucking sound of jobs leaving America?
 
Bad thing is the American people have done it to them self's. Shoot when a person off the streets can walk into a factory that is union and starts off making $20 an hour with no skills then what does that do to the price of things. Ya unions did have there places but when they got to the point they priced labor out of the market then so then they priced jobs out over seas
 
How do we get the jobs back? I don't need a job, been retired 6 years. But our country needs new jobs. How does the small business man creat new jobs?
 
Yep that is one of the problems. Now days we have so many people like the mexs that will come in and do the j0bs no one else wants and because of that they are then bleeding over to other places like Mc Dolands etc. Americans have just plain priced them self's out of jobs and how to fix that is who knows since kids now days don't want to work unless they can stand there with there thumbs up there you know whats
 
(quoted from post at 12:20:09 02/04/10) Sort of interesting that the failing part was supplied by as US submanufacturer. Stop production order was for US manufacture mostly as those were the cars,etc getting the US made throttle assembly. Getting the parts from low bidder sometimes doesn't work quite right. (stirring the pot here, haven't had my coffee yet;^). RN
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The news reports I listened to, said the throttle part was made in Canada. But that it was made exactly to Toyota's spec's.

Ronnie
 
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(quoted from post at 12:20:09 02/04/10) Sort of interesting that the failing part was supplied by as US submanufacturer. Stop production order was for US manufacture mostly as those were the cars,etc getting the US made throttle assembly. Getting the parts from low bidder sometimes doesn't work quite right. (stirring the pot here, haven't had my coffee yet;^). RN
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The news reports I listened to, said the throttle part was made in Canada. But that it was made exactly to Toyota's spec's.

Ronnie
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es, they (Toyo) can't lay it off on anyone else. I worked for a large manufacturing corporation for 30 years & we specified sub assemblies, others manufacturer-ed them, we inspected, tested, accepted or rejected them before installing in our final product.........the buck stopped with us, as it does with Toyo.
 
That's the answer. There are 10-12 million illegals and 4.7 million unemployed. Send half the illegals back, stop welfare, and unemployment problem is solved. Do you think we will hear this idea on any news channel?
 
Well stopping welfare would hurt more older people and the ones that can not work then it would help the job problem. Of course if it didn't cost $3 to get $1 to the person that needed help then it would help a lot. But Gov. red tape causes lot of problem every where and should not
 
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