Top Ten All-American Imports from Car.com

Thanks to the American Automobile Labeling Act (AALA), a vehicle assembled in the US must also be made of US/Canadian parts and content – least 75 percent “ or, according to the wizards in Washington, it’s not Made in the USA. Designed to protect domestic bragging rights for American companies, the law has had the opposite effect, as domestic automakers search for cheaper parts over the border, while import automakers get busy building assembly plants Stateside. They’ve also brought in their own parts system, and the result has been steady gains in the percentage of parts sourced in America.It’s worked. Today, the Toyota Camry is one of the most American cars you can buy, more American than even the Ford Mustang. There’s more, too, much more, enough for us to compile a list of All-American Imports — cars you think are American, but aren’t.

Of course, the same very blue collar people who go on saying “But the companies are owned by foreign countries” have two main issues:

• It’s the jobs, stupid!  It’s more important to have 50% of the income of building a car go locally in the form of wages than the 6-8% that is profit.  And that doesn’t even count all the anciliary jobs in the forms of parts production, truck drivers, etc.
• Most of those companies like Toyota and Honda are in my 401k funds anyways!

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