Buy your next American car from where?

[michaelc80]

Looks like either Ford or GM are looking to build a plant in Indonesia. Wouldn't it make more sense to build cars here with their excess capacity and ship them?

Or maybe not.

Autoblog Article

 

[brianl703]

That depends, does Indonesia have an import tariff on new cars?

 

[Papa Bear]

They will build them there and ship them here.

 

[Al]

Indonesia: health care, unions, disability, wages, environmental, taxes, retirement payments. Seriously..is there any reason not to go overseas to make products??

 

[Drew99GT]

Toyota and Honda obviously have a successful business model of building their US bound cars here in the US.

 

[simple_gifts]

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Seriously..is there any reason not to go overseas to make products??

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Yes, it involves more risk. Look @ Bolivia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011102212.html

or Ukraine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4572712.stm

Care to take a spin of the wheel on your share holders investments?