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Re:GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer by track_me_now on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:31PM (#20835764)
This is a good question because all the manufacturers are totally integrated; It's really hard to determine "where a car is made" because of parts and sub-assembly.

That said, several of the car sites tally up the origin of the parts and assembly and calculate the percentage (likely on a value-added basis) to determine "domestic content":

https://www.cars.com/american-made-index/

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Re:GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer by castratikron on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:41PM (#20835816)
Maybe I don't understand what this is measuring but wouldn't Teslas be close to all-American? They even make the battery cells in the same site as the rest of the car I think. They don't show up anywhere on that list.
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Re:GM Is Now Detroit’s Smallest Auto-Making Employer by dagw on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:04AM (#20837196)
From the page describing the report:

"Tesla declined to furnish enough information to be included in the 2019 American-Made Index."

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