# cars: how important is it to you to buy American?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-how-important-is-it-to-you-to-buy-american/588177>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 7, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-how-important-is-it-to-you-to-buy-american/588177 "2011-07-07T13:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cars-how-important-is-it-to-you-to-buy-american/588177/61 "2011-07-09T00:23:16Z")

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> [@stpauler](#):
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> By “American”, what to they mean? Where the parts were assembled or made or where the corporation is headquartered? There are Hondas assembled in Kentucky and my last Chrysler was assembled in Mexico.

My thinking exactly. Toyota has factories in the United States as well. And it’s not as though Americans can’t buy stock in foreign based companies, or foreigners in American ones. Better tell him that he should be sure to never watch Fox News (or Fox anything really) because he’s giving money to Australians and Saudis.

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