100% American Made Car
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 12:50 last edited by
32% of the Ford F-150 is made of American parts. The percentage goes up if the engine is the 2.7L turbo V6. Ford has 16 plants outside of the U.S.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 14:03 last edited by
I was thinking about selling my CRV for something else, maybe Honda Pilot, for the family of 5... may hold off on that a while if the price might jump up $5-10k thanks to Trump's tax. Also... if car prices do go up that much (who knows), and later tariffs are removed, how motivated do you think manufacturers will be to suddenly lower the price that consumers just got used to paying?
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I was thinking about selling my CRV for something else, maybe Honda Pilot, for the family of 5... may hold off on that a while if the price might jump up $5-10k thanks to Trump's tax. Also... if car prices do go up that much (who knows), and later tariffs are removed, how motivated do you think manufacturers will be to suddenly lower the price that consumers just got used to paying?
wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 14:05 last edited by@89th said in 100% American Made Car:
I was thinking about selling my CRV for something else, maybe Honda Pilot, for the family of 5... may hold off on that a while if the price might jump up $5-10k thanks to Trump's tax. Also... if car prices do go up that much (who knows), and later tariffs are removed, how motivated do you think manufacturers will be to suddenly lower the price that consumers just got used to paying?
Doesn’t that make this the time to do it? Before the tariffs take effect? Just saying…
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 14:07 last edited by
Yeah but I think you have to do it before like April 3rd, and I'm going to a water park next week. A very expensive water park trip, now, apparently.
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Yeah but I think you have to do it before like April 3rd, and I'm going to a water park next week. A very expensive water park trip, now, apparently.
wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 15:13 last edited by@89th said in 100% American Made Car:
Yeah but I think you have to do it before like April 3rd, and I'm going to a water park next week. A very expensive water park trip, now, apparently.
The financing deals are pretty fair right now…
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 16:11 last edited by
I asked ChatGPT how many of the 10 cheapest economy cars are made in the US.
Determining the exact number of the ten cheapest economy cars sold in the U.S. that are manufactured domestically requires specific data on each model’s assembly location. However, based on available information, several of these affordable models are assembled within the United States. Here’s an overview:
1. Nissan Versa: Assembled in Mexico. 
2. Hyundai Venue: Assembled in South Korea.
3. Chevrolet Trax: The 2025 model is assembled in South Korea. 
4. Kia Soul: Assembled in South Korea.
5. Nissan Sentra: Assembled in Mexico. 
6. Kia K4: Assembled in Mexico.
7. Hyundai Elantra: Assembled in the United States at Hyundai’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama. 
8. Toyota Corolla: Assembled in the United States at Toyota’s plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi.
9. Volkswagen Jetta: Assembled in Mexico. 
10. Toyota Corolla Hatchback: Assembled in Japan.Based on this information, two out of the ten cheapest economy cars—the Hyundai Elantra and Toyota Corolla sedan—are assembled in the United States.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 16:12 last edited by
Corolla seems like it would be a winner on the face of things. But would that mean more profits flowing out of the US to Japan?
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I asked ChatGPT how many of the 10 cheapest economy cars are made in the US.
Determining the exact number of the ten cheapest economy cars sold in the U.S. that are manufactured domestically requires specific data on each model’s assembly location. However, based on available information, several of these affordable models are assembled within the United States. Here’s an overview:
1. Nissan Versa: Assembled in Mexico. 
2. Hyundai Venue: Assembled in South Korea.
3. Chevrolet Trax: The 2025 model is assembled in South Korea. 
4. Kia Soul: Assembled in South Korea.
5. Nissan Sentra: Assembled in Mexico. 
6. Kia K4: Assembled in Mexico.
7. Hyundai Elantra: Assembled in the United States at Hyundai’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama. 
8. Toyota Corolla: Assembled in the United States at Toyota’s plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi.
9. Volkswagen Jetta: Assembled in Mexico. 
10. Toyota Corolla Hatchback: Assembled in Japan.Based on this information, two out of the ten cheapest economy cars—the Hyundai Elantra and Toyota Corolla sedan—are assembled in the United States.
wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 16:15 last edited by@jon-nyc said in 100% American Made Car:
I asked ChatGPT how many of the 10 cheapest economy cars are made in the US.
Determining the exact number of the ten cheapest economy cars sold in the U.S. that are manufactured domestically requires specific data on each model’s assembly location. However, based on available information, several of these affordable models are assembled within the United States. Here’s an overview:
- Nissan Versa: Assembled in Mexico. 
- Hyundai Venue: Assembled in South Korea.
- Chevrolet Trax: The 2025 model is assembled in South Korea. 
- Kia Soul: Assembled in South Korea.
- Nissan Sentra: Assembled in Mexico. 
- Kia K4: Assembled in Mexico.
- Hyundai Elantra: Assembled in the United States at Hyundai’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama. 
- Toyota Corolla: Assembled in the United States at Toyota’s plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi.
- Volkswagen Jetta: Assembled in Mexico. 
- Toyota Corolla Hatchback: Assembled in Japan.
Based on this information, two out of the ten cheapest economy cars—the Hyundai Elantra and Toyota Corolla sedan—are assembled in the United States.
Assembled is the key word, here. Where are the parts coming from.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 16:17 last edited by
Who knows. All of them have plenty of parts from abroad I would bet. And I don’t know how the tariffs are going to deal with that. Ironic that the Chevy will get penalized more than the Toyota.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 16:20 last edited by
Tariffs = massive inefficiencies through compliance and surface for corruption. We’ve already learned these lessons. It’s not theory.
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 19:35 last edited by
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Tariffs = massive inefficiencies through compliance and surface for corruption. We’ve already learned these lessons. It’s not theory.
wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 19:36 last edited by@xenon said in 100% American Made Car:
Tariffs = massive inefficiencies through compliance and surface for corruption. We’ve already learned these lessons. It’s not theory.
Catch Vance's speech today?
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wrote on 28 Mar 2025, 19:41 last edited by
Have not. Got a link? Is this soeech from a military base? (I assume they couldn’t find any Greenlander to actually host them)
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 02:34 last edited by
What a crass fucking comment.
Find your own damn link.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 02:54 last edited by
You know what’s crass, these dorks ogling their neighbor’s lands. Especially when those neighbors find it disgusting.
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wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 03:14 last edited by Renauda
@Jolly said in 100% American Made Car:
What a crass fucking comment.
Find your own damn link.
Been called out again or just spilling water, eh Foghorn?
555
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Have not. Got a link? Is this soeech from a military base? (I assume they couldn’t find any Greenlander to actually host them)
wrote on 29 Mar 2025, 15:36 last edited by Renauda@xenon said in 100% American Made Car:
Have not. Got a link? Is this soeech from a military base? (I assume they couldn’t find any Greenlander to actually host them)
Here’s a link by Timothy Snyder who, although overall correct in his assessment, will not go over well with a few posters here:
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 15:30 last edited by jon-nyc
'A lot of costs, and a lot of chaos' - Ford CEO Jim Farley
Asked if production could be moved back to the United States, as Trump has suggested will happen, the executive said there are many challenges with that approach.
“If you’ve ever done a home renovation, you know that anything is feasible if you put enough money behind it, right? But economically feasible is a different question,” said the executive. “It takes time, particularly since we are close to capacity in most facilities still coming out of the supply chain crunch. So you’re talking investing in new physical capacity in the US, which has a very long lead time.”
But even if the tariffs stay in place throughout Trump’s term, and they’re not part of a negotiating strategy to change the USMCA North American free trade agreement, automakers say it is difficult to build plants based on one administration’s tariff policy.
“It’s three years at best for brand new automotive capacity that could potentially span into a new administration, where the rules could change,” said the executive. “So just by the time that capacity was coming online, you might find that was no longer your optimal footprint.”
And automakers are still unsure which tariffs are permanent, and which are simply a “negotiating tactic,” former Ford CEO Mark Fields said in an interview with CNBC.
“Most boards are going to wait for the smoke to clear,” Fields said.
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 15:38 last edited by
Yes one of the few facts on the ground with Trump's tariff insanity remains that he does not have the runway for any best case tariff scenario to actually play out. He will spend all his political capital as the plane hurtles down that runway, and it will never take off, because a different administration will be voted in, mostly on a no-tariff platform, which will suddenly become the greatest political messaging since no boys in girls sports.
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wrote on 5 Apr 2025, 17:17 last edited by
It would be more useful if it didn’t mix US and Canada but interesting all the same.
