You guys are confusing "Assembled in" versus "made in". Vehicle assembly is about 10 hours and most of the import auto plants pay about $16/hr...so a small percent of the vehicle cost.
The real cost is the engineering,design and testing, plus accounting, tooling and supply chain. When America lost that part of the auto industry to the imports it put a real hurt on the USA economy. Lots of lost taxes to run our nation. Those white collar jobs were the hopes and dreams we had for our college educated children.
American auto makers were forced to get many parts made overseas to stay competitive with the parts the import auto makers were bringing in.
Cow is out of the barn now. Too bad our leadership was not as protective of our industries as the Asians and Europeans were of theirs.
Assembled in America is a way to placate politcians and convince the Americans that this is a good thing. Just read your own comments.
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