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Originally Posted by HDDAN
I buy American period. Yes, I am aware that the Camaro is Canadian built. It is built by an American owned company. I do not want a car built by a company (Nissan) that used our captured soldiers as slave labor during WW2. I do not want a car built by a company that built the planes that bombed Pearl Harbor (Mitsubishi, the Zero). I will not buy a 2020 Taliban or a 2021 Al-queda either. If that is "car racist" then so be it. I also do not want a car designed by Ferdinand Porsche under orders from the man that started the car company (Volkswagen) ( Adolph Hitler). You can fact check any of this if you want.
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So, you check EVERY product or just your cars? Better be looking at the content label too as much of today's assembly items come from those countries you seem to hate...
And a car "built by an American company" does nothing for the American production worker if it is built in Canada. At least a Toyota assembled in the U.S. benefits the working American production employee as they get a paycheck out of it, the plant pays taxes in America, and the local economy gets a boost from the additional employed citizens that then spend their money in the local economy.
The argument you put forth is one of worst for why someone should buy a car... Is a Buick assembled in China better than a Toyota assembled here? If you want to support the American worker, then buy a car assembled in the United States with parts built in the United States.
If you want to buy a Camaro because you really love the Camaro...buy it. Don't justify your purchase with the fact that it is an "American" company when the production does not occur in the United States. That's almost as good as people calling the GTO an American car...the thing was built in Australia. There are plenty of "foreign" cars that have much more American content than some of our own "domestic" cars...
