• the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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    Hard agree, as an American. Honda and Toyota destroy our local companies in pretty much every regard other than maybe regulation dodging.

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      Can you even call our local companies “local”, they’re all assembled and built in mexico anyways.

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        Now that you mention it, I wouldn’t be surprised if Japanese companies manufacture more cars in the US than US-based companies.

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          Not sure about more, but I remember a story from a while ago that Honda or Toyota had the only NASCAR car entirely manufactured in the US.

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        My brother works for one of those “local” companies and was still calling it local even though he had half a dozen plants in Mexico he was responsible for tooling up

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          Dodge! I love their looks, but they’ve had disproportionately bad transmission problems since I was a kid. :)