Quote: Everyone loves to point out that Camrys and Accords are built in the US. But what does that really mean? The majority of the parts come from Japan. The vast majority of the engineering, marketing, sales support, etc. was done in Japan. And finally, the majority of the profits go back over there too.
US Marketing and Sales Support is not handled from Japan; it's handled by the US subsidiaries of the respective companies.
And who cares where the profits go? The US got all it's taxes from the sale and income, and most of those profits will probably be re-invested back in our economy in the form of new facilities which will in turn provide more jobs.
So, let's see, they provided jobs to thousands of American Autoworkers, most of whom were hired from labor pools laid-off when American companies sent their labor to Mexico, they build facilities here hiring thousands of construction workers, source out billions in parts and employ tens of thousands more people, pay what amounts to probably more in taxes to the government than the Big 3 does, and in the end their cars will probably have a lower foreign parts content than your "American" car.
Take my Mazda6 -- a "Japanese" car, made from parts sourced almost entirely within the US (Engine: Mexico; Trans: Japan), built in a UAW factory in Michigan literally right alongside Ford workers now building Mustangs.
