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Jeff
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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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Mike hunt wrote:
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The import brands try to give the impression that the vehicles they sell in
North America are made in North America, but that simply is not factual.
According to the US Department of Commerce site, around 85% of the vehicle
sold in the US by both GM and Ford are made in North American of around 80%
NA parts. NO import brand builds anywhere near 50% of the vehicle they
sell in North America in North America and the vast majority of parts in the
vehicle they assembled in North America are made elsewhere.
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Toyota buys close to $28 billion a year of parts and services in the US.
And the Toyota Camry, Sienna and Tundra all are made with 75% or more
domestic content (domestic defined as made in the USA).
<http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0707>
What's the URL of your site?
Jeff
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"Ralph Mowery" <rmowery28146@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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GM employs 142,000+ people in the United States.
Toyota employs 36,632 people in the United States.
The sources:
http://www.gm.com/corporate/about/global_operations/north_america/usa.jsp
http://www.toyota.com/about/our_business/at_a_glance/our_numbers/direct_employment.html
Not only that, but the Toyota jobs are basically just lower paying
blue collar jobs, where as GM has 50,000 engineers working over here.
Toyota and other import car companies have brainwashed Americans into
thinking that buying their car is just as good or better for the
American economy than buying from the Big Three, because their car is
assembled over here, but that is baloney. My friends...when we buy
our cars from GM, Ford, or Chrysler, the money stays over here.
Otherwise, it just goes down the drain.
I don't know about the blue collar workers, but when Ford will fire a CEO
and give him $ 20 million to leave, something is wrong with our system...
Just as with Home Depot. Fired their CEO and gave him $ 120 million.
Wish I could get fired and get my part of that.
How many of the big 3 cars are made somewhere else and shipped here ?
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80 Knight
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:52 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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Is that why Toyota recalls more vehicles every year then all other auto
makers? That's definitely "reliability".
Recalls more or has more recalls? There is a difference.
The fact is, Toyota got greedy, and tried to get to the #1 auto maker too
quickly, and in doing so, they let there quality slip considerably. Not
that it was all that great before either.
Apparently it is not so simple as you suggest.
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/jun2006/bw20060601_836628.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page_news
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Same shit, different Day HLS. When Toyo makes a recall, they are praised for
thinking of there customer's. When GM issues a recall, they are trashed by
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GIga
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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Long Dong? Is that you?
GIga
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Is that why Toyota recalls more vehicles every year then all other
auto makers? That's definitely "reliability".
Recalls more or has more recalls? There is a difference.
The fact is, Toyota got greedy, and tried to get to the #1 auto maker
too quickly, and in doing so, they let there quality slip considerably.
Not that it was all that great before either.
Apparently it is not so simple as you suggest.
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/jun2006/bw20060601_836628.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page_news
Same shit, different Day HLS. When Toyo makes a recall, they are praised
for thinking of there customer's. When GM issues a recall, they are
trashed by those same people.
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Mike hunt
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| Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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Ya' think? ;)
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Is that why Toyota recalls more vehicles every year then all other
auto makers? That's definitely "reliability".
Recalls more or has more recalls? There is a difference.
The fact is, Toyota got greedy, and tried to get to the #1 auto maker
too quickly, and in doing so, they let there quality slip considerably.
Not that it was all that great before either.
Apparently it is not so simple as you suggest.
http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/jun2006/bw20060601_836628.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page_news
Same shit, different Day HLS. When Toyo makes a recall, they are praised
for thinking of there customer's. When GM issues a recall, they are
trashed by those same people.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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weird wrote:
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Amen Brother.
Buy American!!!!
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Hmm, should I buy a Chevrolet Suburban made in Silao, Mexico, or a
Toyota Sequoia built in Princeton, Indiana?
Should I buy a Chevrolet Impala made in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada or a
Toyota Camry built in Georgetown, Kentucky?
Which company is exporting blue collar jobs to Mexico and Canada, and
which company is building new factories and design centers in the U.S.? |
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Josh S
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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In article
<dff9cde3-d3e9-47e3-8ff5-f81d67e3aa26@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
buydomestic@usa.com wrote:
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GM employs 142,000+ people in the United States.
Toyota employs 36,632 people in the United States.
The sources:
http://www.gm.com/corporate/about/global_operations/north_america/usa.jsp
http://www.toyota.com/about/our_business/at_a_glance/our_numbers/direct_employ
ment.html
Not only that, but the Toyota jobs are basically just lower paying
blue collar jobs, where as GM has 50,000 engineers working over here.
Toyota and other import car companies have brainwashed Americans into
thinking that buying their car is just as good or better for the
American economy than buying from the Big Three, because their car is
assembled over here, but that is baloney. My friends...when we buy
our cars from GM, Ford, or Chrysler, the money stays over here.
Otherwise, it just goes down the drain.
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Better half the pot than none at all.
At least they are building good cars here, not importing them all.
BTW GM imports their smaller cars from Korea. |
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Josh S
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: U.S. Employment: GM vs Toyota |
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In article <VaCdnReQJuyAWqzVnZ2dnUVZ_hzinZ2d@ptd.net>,
"Mike hunt" <mikehunt22@lycos.com> wrote:
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What you should be asking
is why import brand vehicles sell for 20% more than domestic brand vehicles
of the same size with the same equipment, yet the workers in US imports
brand assembly plants earn around 20% less than union workers
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Could it be they build better cars.
The customers certainly like them, based on the sales trends. |
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