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<font size=3>Content, Schmontent -- where do the profits, and the taxes
on them, go??? Japan or Korea...or Germany, or China, etc. GM
and Ford profits got to "Detroit" and corporate taxes to
Washington and Ann Arbor. Don't know what's going to happen
to any "profits" from Chrysler.<br><br>
I am also not happy about the CFC U.S. tax dollars going to Toyota and
Honda -- but what do *I* know???<br><br>
At 11:12 AM 8/15/2009, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">An automotive assembly plant
does not add much content to a car, all the money is in the components
and all the car manufacturers chase the components to the lowest cost
producer, which right now is places like china, india and brazil. We get
our blocks from brazil, cranks from India and push rods and valves from
China. I started at GM in '73 and watched them go from the southern
strategy where they built components down south (non union) and then
things got cheaper in Mexico so we shut down plants in SC to move to
mexico. THen it became even more global with Brazil getting into the act,
then finally india and china. I currently work for a diesel engine mfg
and we get 19Liter blocks from brazil and 30L blocks from Germany to be
machined here inthe US. THe Japanese car companies brought their supply
base over here (NTN, Aisen, etc) when they set up assembly plants,
so it wouldn't surprise me that they have cars with more US content than
GM or Ford. <br><br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Jay Marshall" <lightfoot@sc.rr.com><br>
To: "General pattern discussion"
<nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:25:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] New Vehicle<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#000080">There was an
article published recently concerning the top 10 USA content
automobiles. Toyota was three of them as I recall.<br>
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</font><font face="Brush Script MT" size=4 color="#000080"><b><i>Jay
Marshall</i></b></font><font size=3 color="#000080"> <br>
</font><font face="Tahoma" size=2>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org
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mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Bob Richards<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 14, 2009 8:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> General pattern discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] New Vehicle<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>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).<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>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.<br>
</font> <br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>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.<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Bob R.<br><br>
<br>
--- On <b>Fri, 8/14/09, mike mueller
<i><mups1953@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>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>
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