Chart Of The Day: Domestic Content Edition

by Edward Niedermeyer

Published: June 23rd, 2010

chart of the day domestic content edition

These are the ten vehicles that NHTSA says are made from 90 percent domestically-produced components [via cars.com]. Notice a common thread there? Yes, the correct answer is Ford involvement, but according to cars.com, the task of crowning a “king of domestic content” isn’t as simple as NHTSA’s number.

Cars.com doesn’t give away the secret recipe for its American Made Index, but it says that it weighs parts content (minimum requirement: 75 percent) against sales to find the maximum economic impact. It also models excludes vehicles built exclusively outside the U.S. or models that are being phased out (akaTown Car, and the Mercurys). Here is the top of their list for 2010:

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Wagen on Jun 25, 2010

It's a shame that the phrase "fun to drive" doesn't describe a single vehicle on either list. (Well, maybe the wrangler if one expands the driving to include off-road.)

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D_c_weber on Mar 09, 2011

We need a domestic content label for products sold in this country. The content should be based on the % of dollars that go to USA citizen's versus the % of dollars that go to non-USA citizens. It doesn't matter that a Ford Fusion is built in Mexico. What matters is that for every dollar that is spent on a Fusion, $0.90 goes to USA citizens. Even though some Mexican's put togetehr the final product, that doesn't make it a Mexican vehicle. Same with a Honda Civic. Sure a few thousand dollars goes to some laborers in Marysville, OH. But, follow the money. All of the profit, engineering, and most parts go to Japanese citizens. I have good froiends that are Japanese. But, when it comes to patriotic duty, balancing the trade deficit comes before the cheapest price and it comes before friends. Afterall, my grandchildren will be the peons to the Chinese and Japanese and Koreans if we don't buy USA today.

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