Why YOU Should Buy American

Before you guiltlessly buy a Toyota, Nissan or Honda that was built in America, please consider these facts:

· The domestic parts content for GM vehicles sold in North America averages 82%, while Toyota's is less than 41%.
· Every day, about one million North Americans earn their living by helping GM build and sell cars in North America.
· The domestic manufacturers employ almost 90 percent of all American autoworkers with about 470,000 direct employees in the U.S.; nearly 10 times as many as the Japanese transplants, who employ 49,000.
· Members of the United Auto Workers staff GM assembly plants. Toyota's plants are non-union.
· Combined, GM, Chrysler and Ford spend more than $16 billion on research and development each year; more than any other industry.
· Profits earned by GM in North America stay here. Toyota's profits go to Japan.

Back in the eighties and early nineties, I was a foreign car advocate. They were less expensive and more dependable. Since then, American vehicles have come a long way and are safer, more comfortable, as dependable and durable as any foreign vehicle. Foreign vehicles, on the other hand, have become more expensive yet have kept the cheap look and feel that they always had. If they were as trouble-free as some like to believe, they wouldn’t have to offer such elaborate warranties.

I worked at several foreign new car dealers and they all have one thing in common – a service and repair department.
You can help keep fellow Americans employed, both assemblers and suppliers, by buying an American vehicle.