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Originally Posted by HumanWiki
I don't know what the OP is asking.. Like I said.. The very explanations and statements used are incorrect.
Camaro isn't a USA made car
Honda isn't a non-USA made car
The examples are self contradictory, so there's nothing from which to really talk about other than what's being explained above.
It would be like saying, I hate listening to Foreign music like Country/Western
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Can we drop this tired and ridiculous argument?
The Camaro is an American vehicle. No, it wasn't
assembled in the USA, but it sure as hell spent the first four or five years of it's life going through design, engineering and logistics in the USA.
What, do you think an auto manufacturer has an idea for a vehicle and the assembly plant, regardless of where it is, magically appears with the lines to build it? Like there wasn't a half a decade of planning that goes into making that a reality, and the reality is that five years of work comes from the artists, designers, engineers and executives at GM.
The cost of a car is determined by a great many factors and it would be absolutely impossible to nail down how much the labor for assembly of one vehicle is or how much the raw materials for one vehicle is. But you can be assured that after five years of development that the major portion of the cost of the vehicle goes into recouping those expenses until profit is made. Profit which, by the way, certainly does go back into the US economy. Are
all of the engineers, artists, and designers in the USA? Probably not, but I know a great many of them are still in Detroit. Those are the people responsible for "American" vehicles, not the line workers assembling it, or the overseas parts manufacturers. The parts manufacturers wouldn't be supplying the line workers with parts who wouldn't be building these cars without all of the work up front.
Not a dig on them as they are definitely necessary to the process, but they certainly didn't design the car.
This really struck me when I showed my Dad, who worked for GM for 38 years, the video of Top Gear reviewing the Corvette ZR1. Jeremy was absolutely beside himself at the end of the episode and he remarked as he was flying around some corner, "Well done, fat man in Kentucky!"... and my Dad said, "No, well done Detroit". It really doesn't make a difference who put it together, it makes a difference how that person is told to put it together, and that's what makes this or any other GM vehicle American.
EDIT: And to answer the question, you can probably guess that I've only ever owned and only ever will own GM vehicles.