When buying a car, what does it mean to buy American?

Danyell Rowback: looks like you will be buying a Corvette, one of the very few not outsourced offshore Why drop the money on a new one when you can get one that just came off lease or one of the manufacture's "program cars" you get nearly new and the savings are great (you don't take the depreciation bath, they do) you also usually get all the maintenance logs, if not, pass that one up

Francisco Schonhardt: Most of the time it's to buy from Ford, GM, and Chrysler.

Lynn Melbourne: Truly it means to buy a car from an American owned maker & it was built in the states. But we all know that they still use plenty of foreign parts in them.

Lucille Saetteurn: What chris2em says is right on.Who cares where profits go?If you are a Japanese citizen who somehow still owns GM or Ford stock, your profit just went to that guy's bank account as well. If you are a Toyota stockholder in the USA (probably many of those US workers fit that mold), Toyota profit goes to your! bank account.When Toyota builds a factory in the USA, profit had to go into that venture.When GM builds an engine plant in China to ship engines back to the USA, profit went into that.Profit is overrated, especially if you don't make any to speak of.Buy what suits you. If anyone complains about that, let them buy your next car for you....Show more

Patrica Loertscher: I am as well and do plan on buying american and in my own very city. Support American Products and the taxes will come back into my own city. I don't think people realise they need to buy within their community.

Maryland Gareau: Much of what people say about Toyota or Honda isn't true. Many of the most popular cars they make are assembled here and have a large majority of parts made in the U.S. The parts aren't imported and get final assembly here, they made here, assembled here and sold here using American workers. Now they say "profits go away"...Saying "profits go away" is just what some are no! w using to keep you from buying something that isn't from the ! big three. Yes, it's true. But the profits sent away are tiny compared to the billions and billions that go the American workers for Honda, Toyota and some other Japanese automakers. But is it more important to see money go to big suits from U.S. auto bands or the thousands of American workers that work for "foreign" automakers? Is it wrong to support American workers from Japanese automakers? And do you think that buying cars from the Big 3 is all that great for you and your country? If GM, Ford and Chrysler (more with GM and Chrysler) care for this country, why do they keep sending jobs away to Canada, Mexico, Korea, Brazil and China? Or what about all they taxpayer bailout money they're burning up? That is not how people support America, is it?...Show more

Neely Youngblut: The purpose of buying American is to keep the profits at home. The profits from American built Toyota's go to Japan. Japan is a country that has laws that protect Japanese manufacturers and which! result in an unfair competitive disadvantage for American industry. Research the trade deficits to see the disproportionate trade profits.