Americans Are Open to Cheap Chinese Cars. That's Scary for the Auto Industry

The Monroney Sticker that is on the vehicle lists the following:

US/Canadian parts content (by percentage)

Other countries that are major sources of parts content (by percentage)

Final Assembly Point (City/State/Country)

Country of Origin for the engine

Country of Origin for the transmission

I'm just pointing out that regardless of branding, the quality of the products is (1) not equal, (2) still correlated with where the vehicle is assembled.

Because at least presumably, the American companies sourcing parts and labor are overseeing the final product. A lot of products are made in China, sold at Target or Best Buy, and quite good.

Whereas if you buy some "random China" toodad off of Alibaba or Wish, who knows what you're getting.

To put a finer point on it, would you trust Random Chinese Business to definitely install airbags correctly without Ford or Toyota looking over their shoulder? I doubt you would.

It's not a hating on China thing so much as it's an acknowledgement of the fact that domestic Chinese brands generally tend to make absolute garbage.

I'm not saying this from the aspect of "chinese cars are bad" or whatever. Like the Japanese ones did before, they too getting on par and better. So consumers would be fine with either.

I said it from the perspective of losing national competence, infrastructure, and readily available trained people to work it (like it happened with other areas of manufacturing) and getting to play catchup later. American consumers sourcing parts or whole items from other countries will find they're also giving their manufacturing jobs to those countries (and creating a big working class/lower middle class issue), that those countries can then compete globally and replace their own brands, and so on. Later they can find that relying on outsourcing parts means they have not kept up with manufacturing infrastructure domestically, they don't have as many training operators available, and its a difficult race to get back on track when they decide to step it up again (like with the chips industry).