Originally Posted by
kapone
if the big 3 (in Detroit) didn't learn in the 70s when this exact same thing happened and they almost went out of business because there whole line up of cars was giant gas guzzlers, let them fail ... by the way more Japaneses cars are built in America than American cars (Google up Toyota, Nissan, Subaru and Honda plants in Kentucky, Tennessee and a couple other mid wester states ...) ... because of that union thing most Chrysler and fords are built in Canada and Mexico were the union have no say ...and i believe most if not all Chevy engines are built in china now anyways ....
UAW high costs force American car manufacturers to outsource like that.
Some foreign companies build plants here to favor the exchange rate of the dollar, and also to remove freight shipment. With a market as big as North American, do you want to waste your money on a big boat from Europe/Japan? You might as well set up shop where you sell the most.
And foreign companies don't want to help the American worker, people. If they could, they'd build them at their own homes, ship them over, and do it all very happily.