[RocktimusPryme]

Originally Posted by Formulajones

Meh, not a fan of the foreign stuff so doesn't bother me they aren't produced.

What I find ironic is how more people than I've ever seen before complain about their foreign parts, horrible this and horrible that, but so many will praise about their foreign vehicle sitting in the driveway?

Good is good I guess.

People complain about horrible foreign parts, because they tend to fail and be worse than USA made parts. The draw being that they are cheaper and readily available.

I don't think you can say the same about Toyota trucks. They get praised because they have a reputation for being very good. Plus they are in the same price range as its domestic rivals. So any quality discrepancy doesn't come with a price difference.

So its not the same thing.

Also, Im pretty sure several "foreign" manufacturers are actually heavily made in the US. Again Toyota pickups specifically I believe are more USA made than their domestic counterparts. What do I care where the trillionaire lives at the top of the company? I don't care about that guy. If the plant is here creating decent jobs for Americans Im good with that.

Most of the companies in general are Japanese that we are talking about. As someone who works in Process Improvement, much of what we do is modeled after Japanese (Toyota Specifically) workflow models. So once again, comparing cheap chinesium reproduction parts, with Japanese manufacturing is not the same thing.