Which Cars Are Made Outside the U.S.?

Key Points

• With a new administration in the White House for 2025, the U.S. auto industry spent much of the year grappling with tariffs and manufacturing challenges.
• An eventful 2025 on the policy front, slowing sales and a shift in many automakers’ electrification strategies has meant that the vehicle landscape looks different in 2026.

With a change of administrations in the White House for 2025, the U.S. automotive industry spent much of the year grappling with the implications. Perhaps the most pressing concern for shoppers was affordability while the industry negotiated tariffs and manufacturing challenges, both of which President Donald Trump addressed in a visit to Detroit in mid-January.

Related: 2026 Cars.com American-Made Index: Which Cars Are the Most American?

While the number of nameplates has stayed roughly the same despite policy redirections since Cars.com’s American-Made Index began detailing every vehicle made domestically in 2020, the challenges of a pandemic, an eventful past year on the policy front, slowing sales and a shift in many automakers’ electrification strategies has meant that the vehicle landscape looks different in 2026; look no further than our regularly updated lists of discontinued model-year 2026 vehicles and stillborn electric vehicles for proof.

As part of our work for our annual American-Made Index, we’ve gathered the brands and nameplates of those vehicles produced outside the U.S. for model-year 2026 to shed further light on how complex the carmaking process can be. A few caveats: Source data were collected primarily from the American Automobile Labeling Act, which requires automakers to report the location of final assembly for all light-duty vehicles (that is, vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of up to 10,000 pounds). Heavy-duty pickup trucks, low-sales exotics, and commercial and government fleet vehicles aren’t included there, so we’ve attempted to fill in gaps where pertinent and possible. Given all of that, the following breakdown nevertheless offers a rough snapshot of what non-American vehicle manufacturing looks like.