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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
They're not assembling much of anything in the US these days.
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We manufacture more in the USA today then we ever have. We just do it with a lot fewer people and we are selective about the products we manufacture. More airplanes / fewer socks.
The USA produced 11.3 million cars in 2018. We exported 1.8 million cars in 2018 up from 1.1 million in 2009.
It makes no sense to make subcompact cars in the USA. We are a tiny market for them (Chevy USA only sold 10,600 Sonics in 2018). You build cars in the primary market and then ship them to the smaller markets.
BMW makes SUVs in the USA because we were the primary market. In 2018 BMW exported 235,000 SUVs worth $8.4 billion from their Spartanburg, SC assembly plant.