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Originally Posted by reeves
Yea just the luck of the draw I guess. I woulda stuck with American cars if they hadn't been so crappy back in the 80s & 90s. As fate would have it, Toyota converted me.  It's gonna take A LOT to get me back into an American car dealership... as in, decades of producing a product that's convincingly BETTER than the Japanese brands. They're getting there, just haven't convinced me yet. |
If that's the case, you've probably been "buying American" for a lot longer than you've known.
Toyota
Model - Parts % frm US - Plant Location for US bound cars - Design Location
Camry 80% - Georgetown KY, Lafayette IN - Ann Arbor MI
Sequoia 80% - Princeton IN - Tokyo JP
Tundra 80% - San Antonio TX - Newport Beach, CA
Sienna 75% - Princeton IN - Ann Arbor MI
Venza 75% - Georgetown KY - Newport Beach, CA
Avalon 70% - Georgetown KY - Ann Arbor, MI
Tacoma 70% - Freemont, CA - Tokyo JP
Highlander 70% - Princeton, IN - Newport Beach, CA
RAV4 60% - Woodstock, Ontario - Ann Arbor, MI
Corolla 35% - Blue Springs, MS - Tokyo JP
Prius 0% - Aichi, Toyota JP - Newport Beach, CA
In most of these cases, American's designed the cars, built the parts, the plants, and the cars using Toyota's specifications and process. Making a decision about what to buy based on the manufacturer's country of origin is a paradigm that shifted long ago. Now "Toyota" represents a brand more than an island thousands of miles away.