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Originally Posted by Ray Eklund
Tundra's are only considered an import by the union people in the USA auto business.
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Not entirely true, though you are right, Toyota provides jobs as do many of the so called "imports", they export a lot of product made here too. One of those are called profits. They all go back to the countries in which the locally built "imports" are based.
So even though you may buy a home grown version of a Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, etc, outside of paying a domestic worker to assemble it, the profits go back to Japan, Germany, etc. Let's not even get into parts suppliers for the lines.
One important thing to also note (besides that I'm not a union person) is that now that Toyota and other once known fully imported brands started making vehicles here, they ran into the same QC issues that the big three had/have here. There are more recalls on Toyotas, Honda, even Mercedes, than there have ever been in these company's histories. Now with the US economy in a stall, most of the Toyotas and BMWs planted here have way overcapacity and are shuffling just like the big 3.
Didn't the "imports" build plants here to avoid tarriffs many moons ago?
Anyway you cut it though, in some way you are supporting you local economy and you are also supporting the global economy with any vehicle purchase. As the years continue to pile up, the words domestic and import will be a foregin as the thoughts that one day one could fly from New York to Japan, non-stop.
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