Toyota's CamryBy E. Thomas McClanahan, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Some people make a big deal out of buying American, but when it comes to cars, what does that mean? It's harder and harder to tell domestic from foreign, and Cars.com's American-made index shows why.
In the latest list, the Toyota Camry nudged out the Ford F150 pickup as the most American vehicle. In fact, Toyota had four models in the top 10.
Ford and GM together had five. Chrysler had none -- its popular minivan is made in Canada.
Unions make a fetish of only allowing American-made cars in certain lots at car plants. (The Carpe Diem site, where I found this item, has photos of a couple of typical warning signs.) Would the unions permit a Chrysler minivan but bar a Camry? How much sense would that make?
In a global economy, a lot of the stuff we use is made ... everywhere. One result is lower prices and greater access to good products for people of modest means. In hewing to outdated notions of "American made," unions are clinging to distinctions that are increasingly fuzzy.
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If we had a national healthcare system, our automakers wouldn't have the same built in disadvantage.
Since the government now owns GM and Chrysler they will have the same "advantages" as the Japanese now. And we can all sit back and watch them fail in the next few years.
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Japanese companies have a built in advantage in that, unlike automakers in the US, they have a national healthcare system intead of having to underwrite their domestic employees' healthcare themselves.
If we had a national healthcare system, our automakers wouldn't have the same built in disadvantage.
Toyota as Japanese as Samurai Sword...
Um, its rather simplistic to ascribe national origin of a product to where it is assembled. Toyotas (as with most foreign manufacturers) have completely different type of operation than domestic manufacturers with different implications for the economy:
1. They contain significantly higher import content than US car companies.
2. major design and management jobs are in Japan. those employees have the highest earnings and pay income taxes to the gov of Japan and patronize local businesses in Japan.
3. the corporate income taxes from US operations are also taxed by the Japanese government.
4. design know-how continues to be enhanced by Japanese whereas it will be lost if the US manufacturers are out of business.
5. We created an unfair competitive environment for the domestic producers by allowing foreign companies to set up factories and receive long term tax abatements and pay their employees significantly lower wages and fewer benefits.
Nuff said.
And Toyota Does it Without a Govt. Bailout..
Or without the UAW....
Could be my next car after the clunker bill gets all the procedures worked-out.
It will NEVER be another GM or Chrysler product!!