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OT, where are big 3 trucks made?

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Dave from MN

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Some one said the dodge's are made in Mexico, any truth? What about chev and ford? If I am too stand by my convictions I need to know I AM buying an American made truck.
 
My Ford was made in Canada by Frenchmen.Its full of metric bolts and after the repairs Ive done this summer its got a lot of china parts in it.No chance of buying a US made truck.Toyotas are put together here but a US co made the lousy chassis for their trucks.
 
My last 3 Ford F-150's were made in Detroit Michigan’s Dearborn Truck Plant. Great trucks and outstanding quality.
 
Nissan pickups made in Tennesee?? Engine package came from Japan originally, body and chassis made in US, Axles and suspension pieces over next couple years mostly made in US, some Canada and Mexico. Honda had a new foundry and engine casting plant opening announced 2 years back- engine was for Civics though. Nissan casting engine??--was something about engine block, head, cranks, pistons being made close to Civil War Tredagar Iron Works foundary site that had made cannon for Lee, commentary that local workers had been casting iron cylinders over 100 years- Lee"s cannons was example. Toyota large pickup -Tundra??-factory in Texas. Import commercial vehicle tarrif used to be 25% compared to car 5%, make pickups, etc here with max domestic content means tarriff not applied at all. RN.
 
Ford has (or had) 5 truck assembly lines at the following plants, In the late 90s.
Michigan truck, in you guessed it Wayne Michigan.
Kansas city, Yep Kansas
Loraine Ohio
Ontario Canada
Kentucky truck, Louisville.
This is (was) for the F-series pickups, vans, Navigators, Expeditions.
Other plants make the Escape, Ranger, Explorers.

Ford also has (or had) 5 automatic transmission plants,

Livonia Michigan
Van dyke, (Sterling Heights Michigan)
Bourdaux France
Sharonville Ohio
Batavia Ohio
 
Last truck I drove was like this one .. It came from Mexico plant Although bought new My company got a good deal on it as a cab and chassis only because it hauled two others piggyback. We had the box put on it .
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I think most everything has gone all metric, if you want to ever export anything it better be! We are the only place in the world that still uses the inch, I think. What was really frustrating was my 87 GMC, it had 4 belts on the front of the engine, metric wrenches for 2 and inch for 2.
 
I buy what i think is the best quality and deal,don't care where it's made.After GM stole people's pensions and swindled people who owned stocks and bonds doesn't bother me to buy foreign.
 
I know that some or all of the dodge 1 tons are made in Mexico. The company I worked for did some pipe bending for them. All the pipes were cut, bent, flattened and punched in Ontario, and sent down to Mexico for assembly. Anybody know how many 1 ton trucks dodge makes yearly?
 
Buy American? That is a huge grey area nowadys. With all the "globalization" you could be purchasing American made products from an American owned company but the profits are invested overseas. Or American owned company and the products are made overseas. Saw a post on this site awhile back that maybe the smartest route to go and that is buy locally. If nothing else it helps the economy in your area. On the other hand if I want to buy a truck and there are no trucks built in my area??? Or what if I don't really care for the brand manufactured locally? Replacement parts are an even larger nightmare.
 
Ford closed the St. Paul, MN Ranger assembly plant.....about a week ago. F150s here come from Kansas City.
 
(quoted from post at 18:52:54 12/23/11) Some one said the dodge's are made in Mexico, any truth? What about chev and ford? If I am too stand by my convictions I need to know I AM buying an American made truck.
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ave, I'm afraid that you are SOL, my friend!
There is not ANY big 3 vehicles that have 100% American content (labor & materials). Sorry, but that is where we have come to. In some cases the % is actually higher when it has a foreign nameplate on it!
 
Dodge was in Missouri with components from Canada and Mexico.

Chev was Mexico with engine/tranny's coming from the USA.

You can buy a Toyota made in San Antonio....if you can stand their horrible design....without a doubt, the disigners of Toyota sheet metal are the lousiest bunch I ever had the distaste to look at....current Ford 150's right behind them.

Mark
 
My 1991 F150 was assembled in Norfolk, VA. Over the years I"ve also realized there is a mix of English and metric parts on this truck. Ford last produced a truck in Norfolk in 2007, and I think sold the property this year.
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Ive got a 2500 (01) and 3500 (99) Dodge that came out a Mexico assembly plant and a F250 Ford (09) that came from Louisville, KY.
 
Since you're having such a hard time deciding, how bout I just pick you out one and drop it off on my way through tmrw?
 
Chevrolet and GMC light trucks are made in Fort Wayne, IN and (I believe) Mexico.

Dean
 
Ford is made in the Louisvill ky truck plant. As the window sticker on my 2000 says. I think my 99 Dakota says flint Michigan or something like that, or maybe Detroit.??? That escapes me right now.
 
My 97 F-350 was made in Cuautitlan, Mexico. The listed Ford Truck factories include

Cuautitlan, Mexico
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
General Pacheco, Argentina
São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Wayne, Michigan, USA
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Valencia Venezuela

I would guess the Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina trucks were sold elsewhere as I have never seen one.

Aaron
 
The Chevette was the first all metric car in the US in, I think, 1969, but correct me on that. Why couldn't the manufacturers just start converting then? When I worked on my Chevettes I just automatically grabbed the metric wrenches. There was no need to guess as to what was US and what was metric. Jim
 
I have two 1986 F150s. (My favorite body style). One was made in Canada and one was made in the U.S. Speaking of parts, when I worked in a Ford parts dept. you could walk through the stock room and the country of origin on the boxes looked like a geography class. They came from all over.
 
I had a 76 f100, was built in Canada, my current 04 SuperDuty was built in Louisville, and I was just looking at a F150 Ecoboost with a Dearborn, Mi. sticker on it, also saw other F150s on the lot with Norfolk stickers.
 
I know a plant in Norfolk, VA the sign said that they made Ford Trucks. I'm sure When I was in Buffalo, NY, There was a plant in Tonawanda that I was told made Ford Trucks. There is a plant in Canada, which, I am told build guess what. I don't have any idea where they make GMC's, but I would guess that Dodge trucks are built somewhere that hates America very much. I think they are handcrafted by Satan himself.
 
The lousy chassis was made to Toyota specifications. just like the rest of their lousy vehicle. Toyotas have problems just like every other vehicle, they just ignore them and hope they go away. Didn't work with that big re-call they had a few years back.
 
My Dodge-Cummins was made in Mexico and my Ford F250 was made in Canada. My Chevy Tracker also made in Canada.

Ford is the only fully-USA owned car company in the USA. Chrysler is owned by Fiat of Italy. GM is owned by many, including the government of Canada.
 
Are you thinking of the Tonawanda NY GM engine factory? GM currently has 4 North American pickup factories - Flint Mi, Arlington Tx, Ft Wayne In, and Silao , Mexico. My last 3 Chevy and GMC pickups all were born in Ft Wayne Indiana. I am told alot of the newer Dodges are made in Mexico .
 
Where they are assembled does not mean much, as the man said, the parts come from all over the world. As for the fellow assuring us that all Super Duty Ford are American made, well....if it has a diesel engine in it, that Ford diesel was manufactured in Mexico. You might as well stop beating your gums, there is NO car or PU that is 100% American made (content + labor)! Period.
 
And there is a GM SUV plant in the Dallas area; neighbor and wife retired from there. Mine however did come from Mexico; door sticker says so. Workmanship is perfect. No problems since purchase in April.

Mark
 
You probably saw on the local news that the Ford Assembly plant in Saint Paul, MN closed for good last week. The plant started in the 1920's building Model T's and finished up building Ranger pickups.
 
(quoted from post at 12:24:08 12/24/11) You probably saw on the local news that the Ford Assembly plant in Saint Paul, MN closed for good last week. The plant started in the 1920's building Model T's and finished up building Ranger pickups.
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Quite a 'commute' or 'transfer'.............
[i:0a58ed8179]The end of Ranger production means the closure of the St. Paul, Minn., plant where it's made. The plant has produced more than 6 million cars and trucks since 1925, when it was opened by company founder Henry Ford. Many of the plant's 800 workers will be able to transfer to other facilities, the company says.

Ford will continue to sell a new version of the Ranger outside the U.S. Those trucks will be built in Thailand, South Africa and South America.
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I believe all chev siverados were made in Canada at plant number six untl the plant closed some years ago. Also camaro and the same pontiac were made in Canada at one time. Years ago all Ford rearwheel drives were made or assembled in Mexico. They said it on the sticker.One poster said GM was foreign--that is not true unless the foreigners bought GM stock on our stock market. Right now they are a USA company. Thanks to a loan from the UAW members.
 
(quoted from post at 21:15:05 12/24/11) I believe all chev siverados were made in Canada at plant number six untl the plant closed some years ago. Also camaro and the same pontiac were made in Canada at one time. Years ago all Ford rearwheel drives were made or assembled in Mexico. They said it on the sticker.One poster said GM was foreign--that is not true unless the foreigners bought GM stock on our stock market. Right now they are a USA company. Thanks to a loan from the UAW members.
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hat would be thanks to a bail out from all of us US taxpayers, to the benefit of the UAW. How things get twisted!!??
 
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