GM PLANS TO BUILD CARS IN CHINA & EXPORT TO U.S.

[lwkitt427]

WE AS A FAMILY MY DAD WHO IS RETIRED US CUSTOMS. MY BROTHER WHO WORKS FOR PETERBUILT AND MYSELF WHO IS SELF EMPLOYED LITTLE GUY. STAND BY EVERYONE HERE IF GM DOES THIS THEY HAVE GOTTEN THE LAST GM CAR FROM OUR FAMILY

[Xplantdad]

From this CNN/US article:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/12/ame...ars/index.html

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Fewer than half of the parts on some Big Three vehicles are made in the U.S.

Looking at a Ford Fusion? It is assembled in Mexico. The Chrysler 300C is assembled in Canada, but its transmission is from Indiana; the brand's V-8 engine is made in Mexico. Engines in the Chevrolet Equinox sport utility vehicle are from China.

On the other hand, Toyota's Camry is comprised 80 percent of parts made in the United States, and 56 percent of Toyota's vehicles sold in the U.S. also are made here, according to Toyota spokeswoman Sona Iliffe-Moon.

The Toyota Sienna and Tundra also have 80 percent of their parts manufactured in the U.S.

"When you have manufacturers from around the world building cars in the U.S. with 85 percent domestic content -- engine, transmission, assembly -- is that an American car?" Mandel asked. Or, he asks, is it considered foreign because the profits go back to a foreign country?

"It's truly a global industry," said Thomas Klier, a Chicago, Illinois, economist who co-authored "Who Really Made Your Car?" an encyclopedic analysis of the auto industry melting pot.


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So if it's a US car...is it really?

[old5.0]

Regardless of where the car itself is assembled, the bulk of the net profit returns to the country of origin. I wouldn't buy a Toyota if they assembled them on Mars.

[Chateau Slate 66]

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Regardless of where the car itself is assembled, the bulk of the net profit returns to the country of origin. I wouldn't buy a Toyota if they assembled them on Mars.

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Who cares where the "profits" are going (when is the last time a US automaker made a profit?).

Honda and Toyota are giving Americans good jobs here in this country. Chrysler and GM are taking away more and more jobs everyday with no end in sight.

[Unreal]

The profits go to the owners of the company, namely the shareholders.

I frankly would rather buy a Toyota made in Kentucky than a Chevy made in China....assuming quality is the same.

Everyone complains about Chinese imports, but Sam Walton's successors continue to put up more stores. Why? Because we continue to buy there! Why? Because prices are low. Why? Because they purchase a lot from China.

[old5.0]

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Regardless of where the car itself is assembled, the bulk of the net profit returns to the country of origin. I wouldn't buy a Toyota if they assembled them on Mars.

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Who cares where the "profits" are going (when is the last time a US automaker made a profit?).

Honda and Toyota are giving Americans good jobs here in this country. Chrysler and GM are taking away more and more jobs everyday with no end in sight.

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And why has it been so long since U.S. automakers made a profit? Real easy to sit on the sidelines and b!tch, but if we're all going to sit here and complain, let's direct it at the root cause, not a symptom.

Having an auto industry controlled by Japan is not good for the United States, I don't give a damn how many Americans they employ. What we need is three strong, U.S. automakers. We no longer have that, and instead of having a reactionary, "Burn GM at the stake" pity party, maybe our time would be better spent thinking about what the real causes of all this were, and there were several.

Corporations exist for the sole purpose of making money. They do not exist to provide people with healthcare for the rest of their lives. They do not exist to provide incompetent executives with multi-million dollar bonuses. They do not exist to provide a whipping boy to enable incompetent politicians to earn re-election by stupid, uninformed voters who, largely through their own laziness, have been led to believe they're getting screwed by "corporate America" and want to "get 'em back". We've been traveling toward this point for a long time, and now we (yes we, as Americans) find ourselves in the position of losing one of the greatest economic engines in our country's history. One of the greatest, in fact, in the history of human civilization.

Make no mistake about it. GM is fighting for it's survival, and if that survival includes importing a few cars from China, more power to 'em.

/rant