cousincletus
Aren't the largest volume "import" brands (eg Accord, Corolla, Civic, Camry) all built in the USA? The rest of auto sales built abroad are ancillary in comparison. Even low volume Subaru builds their highest volume seller in the USA (Legacy/Outback 100,000 units/year). The same is true of the company at hand Hyundai. Their company volume seller Sonota is built in the USA.
The US parts content is pretty high on the highest volume sellers sometimes exceeding "domestics". Seems like a win-win situation IMHO.
The truth is to supplement/increase production if all cars were built by domestic companies would produce less jobs than creating new car plants/brands with import branded products. Remember each car plant and manufacturer brings a unique set of quality typically high paying jobs with it just to support it in the USA without counting the workers who build a product. To build twice as many Cavaliers does not directly equal twice the workers.
Case in point my college roomate works for a major parts supplier for rubber seals/gaskets. His job is engineering liason between Nissan/Subaru and his company. They have one liason per each Big Three. There is a liason just for Toyota and another for Honda and lastly another for other companies. This is not a wage job but a $90k+/year job in a rural area. Basically this small example shows 3 high quality jobs for domestics. Beyond that he said 3-4 to represent "imports".
[ September 05, 2006, 07:34 AM: Message edited by: rjundi ]
