If you're not buying off the top 5 or top 10 from this list, then you lose the right to complain about future American auto worker jobs being moved overseas. 2025 list was just updated. These are objectively the most America first automobiles you can buy.
https://www.cars.com/american-made-index/
Jeez we stopped by a Ford dealership this weekend to look at escape, bronco and explorer. Hard pass, cheap interior, bad fit and finish. WTF is with the little push button gear shifter on the center console? Right where it could be accidentally shifted? Pets, kids, dropped objects, spilled liquids. Salesman said the push button shifter is more reliable. Right, cheaper is more like it. I have never had a manual shifter fail on a vehicle (or be accidentally shifted).
Bought a Subaru instead.
10,000 components made in Asia, assembled in America.
Want to know how much Jimmy boy cares about America? He lives with his wife and children in England. I am sure he will fly home for the 4th of July.
In a recent company cascade, quality data by plant was reviewed. Our US UAW are the worst in in world (compared to all other Ford plants). So when I get a choice to buy American or buy quality, my choice is to but quality. That may be a Ford built outside the US, or perhaps another automaker entirely.
Ford Motor has been sending all your high/low skill jobs to Brazil, Mexico, India along with hiring H1B's.
Wake up already! Billy and Jimmy have and will continue to sell Americans out!
How bad do I think Ford vehicles are? I’m and LL and I won’t use the MLV perk because I’d rather drive a reliable Toyota.
It's call Made In America, not American Made.
it doesn't matter where the car is made or design. if you work for a company and buy a competitor's product. then you deserve to loose your job. simple.. if you work for mcdonald and eats at burger king every day.. then you're don't have to be a genius to figure out why you don't have a job.
Too bad the country of design and engineering isn't included.
One of the core issues with manufacturing in North America is the perception and often the reality of job instability. Leadership changes or executive decisions can result in mass layoffs with little warning, leaving workers uncertain about their future. Many employees are simply trying to survive, working paycheck to paycheck to support their families, often without strong educational backgrounds or long-term job security. As a result, motivation and quality can suffer. It is not the fault of the workers. This is the system that corporate leadership and cost-cutting strategies have created. Yet those same leaders continue to expect flawless execution from an unstable foundation.
I have been Toyota all my life as I care about the quality and I want to drive my Toyota for another 20 years. With Ford vehicles, you are lucky if it drives for 3 years before the natural disassembly, components and engine fallen apart. I don't mention other things too.
@br that was very well put.
The cat is already out of the bag on this. But and drive whatever you want. There is no longer a true "Buy American". Just levels of buying foreign.
OP can su-k a fa-t.
@OP. I would not risk the lives of my family, or get a lemon, just to please some stoopid OP. It doesn't matter what vehicle I drive, I will always have the right to complain about the companies in my country. After all, this is not North Korea.
If the American companies, or the foreign companies with American workers, want my business, please step up the quality of their products and give me what I want, not what some manager or politician decided that we should have. Why would I give those companies less scrutiny on their products? Because I have a job? A job that I could leave, or worse yet, I could lose it so some honcho can get a bonus? Hard Pass!
I have driven Japanese vehicles for the last 20 years. The first ones were assembled here, but for more than 10 years, I chose assembled in Japan. Why? Quality, simplicity and price. I pay happily the 2% import tariff to my government.
BTW, check the history of what happened 20 years ago, how many Ford employees lost their jobs, how much Bill Ford sc--wed the company, how much politicians doomed this country, and you'd realize, like I did, no more "bleeding" blue, no more believing in those in power.
I am as selfish as any of the fat cats, because that's how the game plays. The money I save buying Japanese vehicles, the money I save in repairs buying good quality vehicles, is money that I am holding for my retirement, since I cannot count with a Ford pension, thanks to the changes made by the C-suite, nor with SS, thanks to the disaster we had as government for so many years.
Sure! Let me just get justice first then we can talk about that! No taxation without representation right?