21st Sep 2011, 07:05
If it is built outside the U.S.A., it would have been built using a labour force, which is, believe it or not, not American.
If it is built outside the U.S.A., it would have been built using a labour force, which is, believe it or not, not American.
20th Sep 2011, 15:11
The only problem with that argument is that a lot of Toyotas, Hondas, and Nissans are in fact designed in the US, engineered in the US, and built in the US out of parts from American companies. So in that case, if the argument is that you shouldn't buy an import because of an outdated assumption that American workers throughout the corporate strata don't share in those profits, then that would be an incorrect assumption, plain and simple. I can rattle off a whole slew of "Import" cars that are more American than any American car. Guess what? There are engineers, designers, upper level executives, salespeople, part manufacturing companies and so on whom work for Japanese companies, who are American, and who get a paycheck. So if the argument is that we should buy cars that support our fellow Americans, then I couldn't agree more, and that is why my next car will be a Toyota.