<VV> Country of Origin - Virtually No Corvair, but interesting

AeroNed at aol.com AeroNed at aol.com
Mon Nov 15 23:05:36 EST 2010


I hope they counted my vote. John was robbed!!
 
Ned
 
 
In a message dated 11/15/2010 8:10:07 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
MSYVairs at aol.com writes:

OOPS...

Unfortunately John is now their  "Former"Mayor.

Lost the re-election bid for another term. Sounded like  it was a bitter  
battle.

Bill Hadley
Baton  Rouge,LA


In a message dated 11/15/2010 1:10:55 P.M. Central  Standard Time,  
aeroned at aol.com writes:


Our  Impala  was built in Oshawa, Canada. I think that's OK since their 
mayor is  a  Corvair owner (including one of those expensive Stingers) and 
a real  
nice guy.  

Ned


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From:  Sethracer at aol.com
To:  virtualvairs at corvair.org
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Subject:  <VV> Country of Origin - Virtually No Corvair, but   interesting




or reference not all Corvairs were built in  the  US. Canada, Switzerland,  
exico, Denmark, Belgium and  Venezuela all  assembled Corvairs. All Corvair 
 
ngines - except  maybe that Porsche  designed prototype (just kidding) - 
were 
made  in the USA as were all stick  and automatic transmissions. Just for  
un, I  checked the sticker from  my wife's 2009 Saturn Aura. US  built and 
both 
ngine  and transmission  of US origin. Cool!  (Especially since both my 
wife 
nd I are  also of  US origin)  <grin>.  - Seth  
rom America On Line Autos -  Written  by Craig Howie 
t used to be pretty obvious which cars were built  in  the U.S. (Detroit's 
ig  Three of Ford, GM and Chrysler) and  which  weren't (everything else). 
hen in the  1980’s the  Japanese started  building cars here, which made 
for 
ome  interesting  arguments about  what constituted an “American” car.  
But 
in 
oday’s global  economy,  it's even harder to answer  the question: Is your 
car 
ade in  America?  
any  consumers looking to buy an American-built vehicle are having a   hard 
 
ime finding one that's assembled here with 100-percent   American-built  
omponents. That’s because it's actually  impossible,  at least if you’re 
talking 
about buying a car from  the major carmakers.  
ade In U.S.A. (Partly) 
or example, while  Jeep's Patriot may be built  in Belvedere, Ill., its   
ransmissions originate in Mexico, Japan and  Germany. Similarly  Ford's  
ichigan-assembled Mustang may be as  American as mom,  Marines, and apple 
pie,  
ut 
ts transmissions  come from  China, France, the U.K., and Mexico. 
Chrysler's 

T Cruiser  isn’t  even built in the U.S. – it’s assembled in Toluca, 
exico,    though its transmission is U.S.-sourced. GM, meanwhile, builds 
its  
hevy  
amaro  in Canada and its GMC Sierra pickup in Mexico.  
onfusing?  Yes. But that’s not the start of it. BMWs are now built in  the  
.S.  and so are some Mercedes vehicles (in Spartanburg,  South Carolina, 
and 

ance, Alabama, respectively). With Japanese  carmakers having  established  
ultiple assembly plants across  the U.S. and American car  companies 
perating  plants in Canada  and Mexico lines are blurred  further. 
o what makes a car American?  It's a rancorous debate that's sure  to 
rumble 
on, but consumers can  make up their own minds based on  information that’s 
 
ppeared on  the labels of every new car for sale  for years. This states  
here  the vehicle was assembled and where the  engine and  transmission 
riginated. 
ark Birmingham, an industry analyst  at  the Center for Automotive 
Research, 
said consumers who want to buy   American primarily should look at where 
the 
vehicle is assembled, as  often  that indicates a large presence not just 
in 
manufacturing.  
There is  something to be said for buying a Detroit ‘Big Three’  label,” 
e   said, “in the sense that all of administrative,  development and  
hite-collar  work is indirectly supported."  
ho Builds What Where?  

ord’s Fusion, Fiesta, and Lincoln MKZ  models are built in   Mexico, while 
he Edge, Flex, Lincoln MKX,  and Lincoln MKT are built in  Canada.  Other 
orth American  models are built in the  U.S.
According to NHTSA documents provided to  AOL Autos, Ford’s compact  Focus 
is 
assembled in Wayne, Mich.,  with 90 percent of its parts sourced  from the 
.S.  and Canada,  but its transmission originates in Germany.  While the 
aurus is   assembled in Chicago, Ill., about 65 percent of  its parts are 
of  
U.S. 
origin.  But its engine and transmission are  both  built in the U.S. 
he F-Series pickup truck, that most iconic of   domestic vehicles, is  
ssembled in Kansas City, Missouri, and   Dearborn, Michigan, but with just 
55  
ercent of parts made in  the  U.S. or Canada. More than 15 percent of its 
parts  
ome  from Mexico,  although all of its engines and both transmission 
systems  
re  built  in the U.S. Some transmissions for the Mustang  (assembled in 
lat  Rock,  Michigan) come from China. 
M  vehicles assembled in Canada  include Chevrolet's Camaro, Equinox  and  
mpala and the GMC Terrain,  while vehicles built in Mexico  include 
Cadillac's  
RX and Escalade  EXT, Chevrolet's Aveo,  HHR, Silverado, and GMC's Sierra. 
M  vehicles  built in the U.S.  include Buick's LaCrosse, Lucerne and 
Enclave,  
Cadillac's CTS,  DTS and STS-V, Chevrolet's Cruze, Corvette, Malibu and  
ahoe,   and GMC's Yukon. 
ccording to figures from IHS Global  Insight, of the  GM vehicles assembled 
 
omestically, several Corvette  engines  are built in Canada, with several  
ransmission variants   originating in Mexico. Its Chevrolet Silverado 
assembled  in  Fort  Wayne, Indiana) carries U.S.-built engines across all 
odels,  
ut   several transmissions are built in Mexico. For the Cadillac  CTS 
assembled  
n  Lansing, Mich., several engines originate  in Canada and Mexico,  and 
the 
transmissions for various models in  the CTS range come from Japan,  
France, 
Mexico, and the U.S. Some  engines for GM's Chevrolet Cruze,  assembled in  
ordstown, Ohio,  come from Szentgotthard, Hungary.  
hrysler says about 61 percent of  the components it uses for its  Chrysler, 
 
odge and Jeep lines  come from the U.S., while about 20  percent come from 
exico  and  Latin America, about 10 percent from  Canada and just under 10 
ercent  from  the rest of the world. It  maintains large production  
facilities 
cross the U.S.,  but also  builds its 300 and  Dodge Challenger and 
Charger, 
n Canada, and the  PT  Cruiser in  Mexico. 
f the Big Three's foreign competition, Toyota,  Honda,  Hyundai and Kia all 
 
roudly trumpet their domestic-built   credentials. (Honda was the first 
apanese  carmaker to build a  car  plant in the U.S., in Marysville, Ohio., 
in 
979, and   more Honda  vehicles are now built in the U.S. than in Japan.) 
oyota  builds its   Camry and Avalon models in Georgetown, Kentucky, its  
Sienna 
nd Highlander  in  Princeton, Indiana, and has large  plants in Huntsville, 
labama,  and San  Antonio, Texas. Hyundai  builds the Sonata and Elantra in 
 
ontgomery, Alabama,  and  shares a plant in West Point, Georgia, with  Kia, 
which 
recently  celebrated  the 100,000th Sorento rolling off  that line. 
issan  and VW both have longstanding ties to Mexico, with plants  in   
guascalientes and Cuernavaca (Nissan) and Puebla (VW). Nissan   assembles 
its  
mall cars like the Versa in Mexico and its  larger  truck and SUV lines in  
myrna, Georgia. VW imports all  its vehicles  into the U.S., though it will 
be  
pening a new  plant in Tennessee.  
ercedes-Benz assembles its ML-, R- and G-Class  vehicles in Vance, Alabama, 
 
with a U.S./Canadian parts content of 62  percent, but both its engines and 
 
transmissions are unsurprisingly  sourced from Germany. BMW, meanwhile,  
ssembles  its X-series  SUVs in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with  mostly 
German  
componentry. 
lectric carmaker Tesla's bodywork is  completed by  Lotus in England, and 
hen  shipped to California for  assembly.  It will jointly develop electric 
ars with  Toyota at the  NUMMI  plant in Northern California. 
t's a little surprising that some   excellent automotive products are born 
f  such a mix and muddle  of  production systems. But today's intertwined 
lobal  economy –  and car  market – ensures that no matter where it comes 
from,  
oday's  cars  mostly are built to high standards. 
therwise,  Americans wouldn't buy   them.
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