Cars.com publishes their Top 10 "most American" vehicle list every 6 months or so, and for the last few years the Tundra has been on this list. This year, the Tundra is ranked ahead of both the Chevy Silverado / GMC Sierra as well as the Ram and just slightly behind the F150.
HOWEVER, if you look at the federally mandated "domestic content" percentages of all these trucks, the Tundra has more domestic content than the F-Series, the GM trucks, and the Ram.
Based on percentage of domestic content, the Tundra is one of the most American trucks you can buy.
See a list of 25 notable vehicles that all have less domestic content than the Toyota Tundra by following the link, and when you comment below, please try not to use the following lame arguments:
1) "You're a fan boy site." - Look at the facts. Just because we like the Tundra doesn't mean this info is false. You can find it on NHTSA.gov.
2) "Toyota is a foreign owned company." - Wrong. Toyota is a publicly traded company with shareholders all over the world.
3) "Toyota uses foreign designers, engineers, etc. and their overhead is in Japan." - First of all, the Tundra was designed and engineered stateside (one of the first Toyotas to be completely designed and built here). Secondly, while it's true that a lot of Toyota's overhead is in Japan, Ford, GM, and Dodge are all making significant portions of their trucks in Canada or Mexico. How is that any different? Toyota's management might be in Japan, but Ford is building F150's and SuperDuty's in Hermosillo, Mexico employing thousands? What's the difference?
4) "I always buy American." - Wrong. Check out where the keyboard that you're typing on was made. Liar.
5) "The profits go back to Japan." - Wrong - see #2. Publicly traded companies distribute profits to shareholders, and shareholders are all over the world.
Anything we missed?
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