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Hey, Is That Really an American Car?
by Austin Weber
June 24, 2009

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Whenever I get together with some of my relatives, we have some interesting debates about what constitutes an “American car” these days. My late father always believed in buying a Big Three vehicle. I can remember him arguing with one of my favorite uncles who has sworn his allegiance to Honda since the early 1980s (he used to drive Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles).

Today, determining what is and is not a truly “domestic” vehicle is getting harder and harder. For instance, is a car assembled in Michigan with a Canadian-built engine and a Mexican-made transmission really American? What about a pickup truck that’s assembled in Indiana by an Indian manufacturer (that’s something that we’ll see sooner than later)?

The New York Times recently created an interactive graphic that helps sort out part of the puzzle. It provides a list of all vehicles assembled in North America, along with the country-of-origin of their engines and transmissions.


Austin Weber
webera@bnpmedia.com
Senior Editor

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