25 Vehicles Less American Than The Toyota Tundra

Cars.com publishes their Top 10 "most American" vehicle list every 6 months or so, and for the last few years the Tundra has been on this list. This year, the Tundra is ranked ahead of both the Chevy Silverado / GMC Sierra as well as the Ram and just slightly behind the F150.

HOWEVER, if you look at the federally mandated "domestic content" percentages of all these trucks, the Tundra has more domestic content than the F-Series, the GM trucks, and the Ram.

Based on percentage of domestic content, the Tundra is one of the most American trucks you can buy.

See a list of 25 notable vehicles that all have less domestic content than the Toyota Tundra by following the link, and when you comment below, please try not to use the following lame arguments:

1) "You're a fan boy site." - Look at the facts. Just because we like the Tundra doesn't mean this info is false. You can find it on NHTSA.gov.

2) "Toyota is a foreign owned company." - Wrong. Toyota is a publicly traded company with shareholders all over the world.

3) "Toyota uses foreign designers, engineers, etc. and their overhead is in Japan." - First of all, the Tundra was designed and engineered stateside (one of the first Toyotas to be completely designed and built here). Secondly, while it's true that a lot of Toyota's overhead is in Japan, Ford, GM, and Dodge are all making significant portions of their trucks in Canada or Mexico. How is that any different? Toyota's management might be in Japan, but Ford is building F150's and SuperDuty's in Hermosillo, Mexico employing thousands? What's the difference?

4) "I always buy American." - Wrong. Check out where the keyboard that you're typing on was made. Liar.

5) "The profits go back to Japan." - Wrong - see #2. Publicly traded companies distribute profits to shareholders, and shareholders are all over the world.

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lexworld - 7/7/2009 12:56:19 AM

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Great job dude. That's what I like a man that sticks to the passionate facts.

toolatetorace - 7/7/2009 1:32:36 AM

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Yes, you missed alot mr. toyota promoter One , car companys have plants all over the world . Whomever owns the plants makes the money . Toyota , Japan . Ford , United States . BMW , Germany ,etc etc. Second , The Toyota Tundra does not measure up in plain stoughtness as the domestics do , No heavy duty version for real truck people , bed bounce, no explanation needed . Tiny little die cast aluminum differential housing . Bad ratings from Consumer Reports . Keep suger coating your story Some people will belive it is black when it is actually white if someone keeps pounding on the message

XYZZ - 7/7/2009 3:39:50 AM

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"The Toyota Tundra does not measure up in plain stoughtness as the domestics do."

yeah, in your dream world.

over EIGHT model years' records, 2003 - 2008, there are all of TWO black dots in the CR Reliability Charts for the Tundra.

ford f-150s get 4 over the same time span, but ONLY with the 2wd models. 4wd models get 7, and the f-250 series get a whopping 30! the tundra's record, btw, includes 2wd and 4wd.

Dodge ram and chevy silverado, along with the gmc clones, also get SCADS of black dots, even with simple 2wd models.

NO ONE builds more reliable, trouble free 4wd trucks than toyota does. tundra 4wd is even more reliable than anyone else's mere 2wd models!

maybe the 'domestic' brands should employ more AMERICAN WORKERS so they can at least get a little closer to toyota quality. (or is it that the toyota DESIGNERS and engineers are more skilfull than their detroit counterparts?)