[Toshi]

interactive map showing domestic content of USA-assembled automobiles: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/06/19/automobiles/20090619-auto-plants-4.html

and the article itself: NYTimes: For Baffled Buyers, a Guide to Cars Made in North America

ABOUT 8.5 million cars and light trucks were assembled in the United States last year, but only about five million of those were made by the automakers traditionally known as the Big Three. More than three million of the vehicles assembled in American plants were built by autoworkers employed by foreign brands like BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and Toyota.

Add to those the familiar Detroit nameplates coming from plants in Canada and Mexico and it’s easy to see how confusing it can be for consumers leaning toward the purchase of an “American” car. Which is the more American product, a Honda Accord built by Ohioans for a company with its headquarters in Japan, or a Ford Fusion built in Mexico for a corporation that is based in Michigan?

 

[rockwool]

Good questions. Creating jobs in ones own country or just letting the profits come to same country. If one is a capitalist then the latter type of globalized world is a good thing and where the car is actually built doesn't matter, I guess.