As the guy found out, not all Hyundai's are built in Alabama, America. I think mainly Sonata's. My wife's Sonata was assembled in Alabama from imported parts. My daughter's Tucsan was built in Korea. Believe Elantra's are built in Korea too, at least some of the different styles of Elantra's are.
My car is 0% American, yay for Fuji heavy industries!
What I meant about "all companies are foreign" is that even though there are lots of auto plants here, all the companies themselves are foreign-owned. There is no such thing as a Canadian domestic make.
I know all about Canadian factories. Two of my Volvos were built at their former plant in Bedford, NS. Most North American Civics are built in Alliston, ON. Camaros come from Oshawa. And so forth. But Canadian companies? Not really.
In reply to rallymodeller:
I was just trying to crack a joke, dude..apologies for my text fail. It's all cool, I knew what you meant.
rallymodeller wrote: Meh, I'm Canadian. All car companies are foreign.
You could always buy.....
....A Bricklin SV-1
[Runs away]
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I purchased my toilet without a test drive as well. It isn't that I didn't try - but the people in the Lowe's seemed appalled and threatened to call the cops.
It's just as well, the display ones are always out of paper
Test driving a toilet in the store is like test driving a car with no gas. You can sit down and make all the noises in the world, but it's just not going to go anywhere.
I haven't tested one yet, but my next toilet will be a comfort height long bowl.
neon4891 wrote: I haven't tested one yet, but my next toilet will be a comfort height long bowl.
I'm posting this from my phone, while sitting on a comfort height long bowl. It's great.
Gelato at 9pm, however, is not, for someone who's lactose sensitive.
Rxbalt wrote:rallymodeller wrote: Meh, I'm Canadian. All car companies are foreign.You could always buy.....
That nose-coming-out-of-a-nose reminds me of this
Knurled wrote:Curmudgeon wrote: I started a husband/wife knock down drag out once completely by mistake. She drove a Mercury Villager, the timing belt let go at ~130k and I was hunting an engine for it, I mentioned that a Nissan Quest engine was the same. She got this really weird look on her face and asked me WTF I was talking about. I explained that Nissan had built the Villager for Mercury; she turned to her husband and screamed 'I TOLD YOU I WANTED A GODDAMN AMERICAN CAR!!!!!'If it helps, it was probably built in Lorain, Ohio.
Probably so. But at that point in their, uh, conversation I wasn't about to try to split hairs. 
JoeyM wrote:Rxbalt wrote:That nose-coming-out-of-a-nose reminds me of thisrallymodeller wrote: Meh, I'm Canadian. All car companies are foreign.You could always buy.....
Yeah, the front bumper treatment is weird, but there is no fun like hitting the door down button (having a faulty valve) and basically dropping a 90lb gullwing door on your brothers behind as hes reaching for something in the pass footwell!
(had a Bricklin years ago, I kinda miss it. Was fun having something so different)
EvanB wrote: I saw this Kia in my town a few months ago:
Is it just me, or is there a very important comma missing there?
This pic of the Tea Party Nissan GTR is relevant:
That site dculberson linked to showed this car as 100% Japanese manufacture.
Slid into a tire wall at VIR a couple years ago IIRC.
Powar wrote: Is it just me, or is there a very important comma missing there?
Hey you can support your local sex workers 
Test drives can weed out stuff you really don't like. I had a guy at the Buick store who bought a LeSabre and complained that the ride was too stiff. It finally got to the point where he was asked point blank if he had test driven the car before he bought it. As it turned out, he had driven another the exact same color etc BUT! it was a version with steel wheels and wire wheel hubcaps. He wanted alloy wheels so the sales guy put him on a car with those, not realizing it was a 'sport' model with stiffer springs and damping. Hence the continual ride quality complaints.
David S. Wallens wrote: True story: There's a staircase in our house that I have used once--like just one time.
So did you climb out the window and take a ladder down if you only used it once, or are you stuck upstairs?
Back to the OP, I'm surprised at the guy, most flag waving buy American types I know are more concerned with the home base of the manufacturer as that's where the turnover / profits flow in their mind. They would have no issue buying a Mexico built Ford, but would never consider an American built Toyota
Define test drives? Do you mean of the actual vehicle your buying or of the type you’re going to buy? I’ve bought many new cars without driving the actual car, but I’d never buy one without driving a representative version. That’s saved me in the past. Back in 08 I was absolutely convinced the Mazdaspeed 3 was the car for me, I’d read every single review, group test, internet rumor and knew the specs off by heart. It was 100% the car for me, right up until the moment I drove one, then it was instantly off the list.
Note, that’s not to say it’s not a great car, it’s just not the car I wanted or needed.
The you get all of the coperation between manufacturers. Like Ford / Mazda. Escorts built in Mexico on a Protege base .. 3 countries involved. Just one example. Much more going on.
David S. Wallens wrote:16vCorey wrote:Well, true, but I didn't see how well it washed or anything. I trusted that it would do a decent job of washing my clothes. Same with the matching dryer. Me: "Does this one work well?" Salesman: "Yes." Me: "Sold."David S. Wallens wrote: I once bought a washer machine without first trying it out. For many people, it's the same kind of purchase.Yeah, but most people don't sit on their washing machine everyday. Well, unless they're into that sort of thing.
Now I may not be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but I cannot think of a single store which will allow me to walk in with a week's dirty laundry and crank it through their display machines. Or let me make whoopee on the display mattress.
Rob_Mopar wrote: I've gone back and forth with posting this today. Don't want to see this fly off into another locked thread, but I need to ask anyway. Back to the original post, why is the Elantra guy being labeled as stupid/dumb? Because he wanted a US built Korean car, or his ranting about getting a Korean built one on the internet? And what's the need to jump all over it? I'm not saying everything has to be "Team America! Berkley-Yea!" but what's the problem of wanting to purchase a US built version of the car?
Here is a different post on another site from the same dude:
It DOES matter where the car is built, not withstanding where my money actually goes. I know the profit will end up going to a foreign company in the end. BUT, I really don't care about keeping the people of Korea employed building my car. And, like I said, I work for a company that ships about 30 coils of steel a day for Hyundai in Alabama. So in a way, it effects my employment, and others here in Indiana. I care about that, not some workers half way around the world. I have zero qualms about the car being less dependable, as I'm sure their built with the same quality control. So that's not an issue with me. When I bought my Camaro last year, I didn't realize they were all built in Canada. But I didn't have a choice there. (well--I didn't here either--I was told they were built in Alabama! lol)
Now, he admits to buy 2 cars without knowing where they were built. Then goes on the typical "America berkeley YEAH" crap about american workers yada yada yada. Add in that he even mispelled the name of the company he works for twice.
Yeah... he's an idiot. To top it all off, that steel he;s shipping down there isn't going into his Elantra. The body parts for those are stamped out in Korea and shipped over here to be installed.
GameboyRMH wrote: This pic of the Tea Party Nissan GTR is relevant:
The kink at CMP. Rebuilt the whole thing, but I think they left the Constitution off of it now
GameboyRMH wrote: This pic of the Tea Party Nissan GTR is relevant:
So some teabagger trashed the Constitution?
(the funny, it burns. BURNS!)
Curmudgeon wrote: Now I may not be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but I cannot think of a single store which will allow me to walk in with a week's dirty laundry and crank it through their display machines. Or let me make whoopee on the display mattress.
Have you tried? On a slow day they'll even film it for you.
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