MADE IN USA

[daugen]

I found this quite interesting

Kogod Made in America Auto Index | Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, DC

 

[Diamondpilot]

Interesting

Chris

 

[kf4uda]

I agree, that is quite interesting. Thanks for posting.

 

[JasG]

Funny it lists Dodge Ram and GM pick-up as US built when I have read over and over that for both the majority come from assembly plants in Mexico. I have read in several auto sources that the GM crew cab 1/2 tons were all from Mexico. Yet they both get top scores under assembly. I also ready that the engines in the GM's trucks from Mexico were made in Mexico.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Funny it lists Dodge Ram and GM pick-up as US built when I have read over and over that for both the majority come from assembly plants in Mexico. I have read in several auto sources that the GM crew cab 1/2 tons were all from Mexico. Yet they both get top scores under assembly. I also ready that the engines in the GM's trucks from Mexico were made in Mexico.

I know Ram has a lot built in Mexico but GM is Canada.

I wonder if they count Canada as US like Obama does?

Chris

 

[Ford850]

GM has several factories in the US, and at least one in Mexico. The first 2014 GM 1500's to be produced this spring will be crew cabs and all from Mexico. Eventually the US plants will come on line later this year and begin to ship too.

 

[jerrybob]

I know Ram has a lot built in Mexico but GM is Canada.

I wonder if they count Canada as US like Obama does?

Chris

Just another state!:laughing:

 

[daugen]

my new Suburban proudly has a made in USA/Texas sticker on the driver door saying built in Arlington Texas.
Yet it's not at the top of the list but not far off either. Maybe its the taco sauce that gets on them...
Aren't a lot of a/c parts Japanese, and of course the Aisin trans on others, but not on mine.

 

[Topkicker]

Funny it lists Dodge Ram and GM pick-up as US built when I have read over and over that for both the majority come from assembly plants in Mexico. I have read in several auto sources that the GM crew cab 1/2 tons were all from Mexico. Yet they both get top scores under assembly. I also ready that the engines in the GM's trucks from Mexico were made in Mexico.

Let me clear some of this up. GM does have a truck plant in Mexico. Crew Cabs are built there. Flint, MI also builds Crew Cabs. Change over for 14 models will take place at the end of June. Check inside your driver's side door to see where a GM Crew Cab is built. Extended Cabs and Reg Cabs are built in Ft. Wayne, IN (my current plant). The largest Chrysler plant was south of the GM plant in Missouri (worked for GM there also). The Chrysler Plant in MO built the top 2 sellers (Ram 1500 and minivan). One went to Mexico and one to Canada. GM has a plant in Canada that will be closing. The work there is comming back to the states. That product will be built in Springhill, TN.

 

[mikehaugen]

I am a little confused why they consider it a "Dodge Ram" still. I am not a corporate attorney or anything, and I don't understand how the whole "Ram" being it's own manufacturer (not affiliated with dodge anymore) works. Are they still really under the Chrysler name, and not Fiat? Also, where do the Dakota's fall in all of this?

 

[Monster5601]

Funny it lists Dodge Ram and GM pick-up as US built when I have read over and over that for both the majority come from assembly plants in Mexico. I have read in several auto sources that the GM crew cab 1/2 tons were all from Mexico. Yet they both get top scores under assembly. I also ready that the engines in the GM's trucks from Mexico were made in Mexico.

The Ram is built at Saltillo, Mexico and Warren, Michigan. I just bought a new RAM 1500 with an 8 speed transmission and a Hemi engine. The window sticker noted that 67% content was from U.S./Canada, 22% from Mexico. It also noted the engine originated from Mexico and the transmission from Germany. My truck was built in Warren, Michigan. I read that Chrysler has a plant in Kokomo coming online that will be producing the eight speed transmissions and a plant in N.C. for the new nine speed.

With GM trucks, if the first number in the VIN is a 3, the truck was built in Mexico, 1 indicates a US built truck.

I also have two Tahoes both built in Texas, but I don't have the window stickers any more so I don't know where the content came from but I remember the engines originated from Mexico.

I am a little confused why they consider it a "Dodge Ram" still. I am not a corporate attorney or anything, and I don't understand how the whole "Ram" being it's own manufacturer (not affiliated with dodge anymore) works. Are they still really under the Chrysler name, and not Fiat? Also, where do the Dakota's fall in all of this?

RAM became its own name plate under Chrysler just like Buick is a name plate under GM.

 

[daugen]

In my earlier years, perhaps like some others, I went through my phase of owning Audis and BMWs, albeit their cheapest models.
All with manual trans. Then I went (North?) American and never went back. Well, at least they were built here. That's likely to be as good as it gets for many cars in the future. At least the jobs stay here.

 

[creekbend]

Our 2001 Chevrolet Silverado was assembled in Mexico. I didn;t even know this until my Title came in the mail. BTW, we bought it new for my Wife.

 

[jerrybob]

Our 2001 Chevrolet Silverado was assembled in Mexico. I didn;t even know this until my Title came in the mail. BTW, we bought it new for my Wife.

Mine too......the alarm bells are in Spanish......took some getting use to!:laughing:

 

[wny770]

Funny it lists Dodge Ram and GM pick-up as US built when I have read over and over that for both the majority come from assembly plants in Mexico. I have read in several auto sources that the GM crew cab 1/2 tons were all from Mexico. Yet they both get top scores under assembly. I also ready that the engines in the GM's trucks from Mexico were made in Mexico.

My 2012 chevy crew was made in the states, Flint Michigan. The window sticker had domestic vs foreign parts content, and the majority was domestic .

 

[crazyal]

Lists like this really are too generic to capture the real picture. It assumes that there's only one plant or if there are multiple plants they are all either inside or out of the US. Plus it doesn't go into depth as to where the parts come from. There's a lot more than an engine, tranny, and body. Finally just because a company is foreign owned doesn't mean that they sent all the profits back to the HQ. On top of that there's the costs of equipping a factory and running it. Trying to put a simple number to something as complex as how many US jobs it creates and how much of the profits stay in the US is kind of a joke.