"So I guess Chevy's should be called burrito burners, since the frame and chasis and engine are all made and assembeled in Mexico?"
Don't give me that. GM alone employs more Americans than all the riceburner companies combined. A few low-level assembly jobs at an automated factory don't make a riceburner "American". Behind each vehicle is an entire corporate infrastructure that the Jap car makers conveniently omit in their propaganda. The real jobs and the corporate profits go to Japan. They sure do a good job of blitzing the public with slick advertising, though.
Justify your Jap car purchase any way you want. I buy American.
Not really - seen the latest employment figures? GM employs less than 200,000 people. Toyota alone employs almost that many directly.
And most of the Asian car companies actually have their design studios here in the States.
"Don't give me that. GM alone employs more Americans than all the riceburner companies combined."
Wow. That's irrelevant.
Chevy pickups are about 80% made in Mexico.
But, hey justify your support of the Democratic party via the UAW, anyway you want.
Me, I just but the best pickup for the jobs -- which are, alas, no longer Ford or Chevy --- and I've literally bought over a thousand Ford and Chevy P/Us over the last 10 years.
The Titans don't fall apart when abused by roughnecks.
That all I care about.