Toyota Camry Tops Cars.com's American Made Index For Second Year
By David Thomas
October 3, 2018
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For the past few years we’ve been ranking cars and trucks built and bought in the U.S. for Cars.com’s American-Made Index. This index, which takes into account a vehicle’s parts content and overall sales, has changed radically over the last two years, and again for 2010, we’ve seen some huge changes.
Remaining the same is the Toyota Camry in the No. 1 spot. But the real surprise is the second spot going to the Honda Accord. Not just because the Accord debuts so high on the list, but because it supplants Ford’s F-150 pickup, the best-selling vehicle in the country. The F-150 dropped off the index because it didn’t meet our minimum requirements for domestic content. The F-150 fell from 75% domestic content last year to 55% this year, despite maintaining the same design.
Ford says that’s due to more global parts sourcing as the company looks to bring costs down across its lineup.
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David Thomas
Former managing editor David Thomas has a thing for wagons and owns a 2010 Subaru Outback and a 2005 Volkswagen Passat wagon.