<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>My wife and I bought a Honda Element a few years ago (2004) and I remember looking at the information about where it was built. It was something like 65% components from North America. The CRV, which had the same drive train and engine, was 65% Asia or Japan (don't remember).</DIV>
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<DIV>I did some EMC testing for a manufacturer that made components for Ford. Some of their stuff was made here, some in China, some in Europe. They design a component that may be used in several, if not all, models, and might be made anywhere in the world.</DIV>
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<DIV>It wasn't too long ago that the ONLY manufacturer that could legally say their cars were 100% made in the USA was Saturn, but I'll bet that has changed, too.</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 8/14/09, mike mueller <I><mups1953@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>Phil don't you think that the nations attached to most cars is kind of muddled? I mean Honda, Nissan and Toyota make a lot of cars here in the US employing a lot of Americans. Ford makes a lot of their cars in Mexico and Canada and South America. Stock holders own car company's up until recently with the Chrysler/ GM debacle. Stock holders from Asia own stock in American companies and American's own stock in Toyota and Honda. Chrysler is now owned by Fiat an Italian company. Mazda is 40% owned by Ford and the list goes on and on. I'm not usre what makes sense anymore. Mike<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>