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Crabby Mike · 07-21-2017, 09:59 AM

According to this article https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/...ican-made-suvs, the Chevy Equinox and Ford Edge are both assembled in Canada. I didn't bother looking any others up, but feel free.

Personally, I think the notion of any cars/trucks/SUVs being "made in America" was overtaken by events long ago. Now RVs, on the other hand ...

Mr_D · 07-21-2017, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by CJ7ole

CR-V not domestic, but thanks, yes a popular toad.

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Honda began producing the CR-V in Sayama, Japan, and Swindon, UK, for worldwide markets, adding North American manufacturing sites in East Liberty, Ohio, in 2007; El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico, in late 2007 (ended in early 2017); Alliston, Ontario, Canada, in 2012; and Greensburg, Indiana in February 2017

Seems like the CR-V is now produced in the US now! Too bad they are no longer towable though.

Some years ago the State of WA passed a law requiring that the state only buy vehicles made in the US. Before that time we, the WSDOT inspectors, got Dodge vans to use. After the law went into effect we could only get Toyota p/u's. The Toyota's were made in the US and the Dodge vans came from Canada. Two years later they rescinded the law.
So many parts are made offshore you can't really tell anymore.

KeysVal · 07-21-2017, 08:59 PM

We recently purchased a Chevy Equinox LT and just finished towing it behind our motor home for about 2,000 miles. No negative issues towing and we really like the Equinox. We get around 30 mpg while driving around town. We got the fwd 4 cylinder turbo.

KeysVal · 07-21-2017, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KeysVal

We recently purchased a Chevy Equinox LT and just finished towing it behind our motor home for about 2,000 miles. No negative issues towing and we really like the Equinox. We get around 30 mpg while driving around town. We got the fwd 4 cylinder turbo.

Forgot to mention it is a brand new 2018 model.

CJ7ole · 07-21-2017, 11:17 PM

We seem to go through this every year. We start longing for a toad with good road manners so we start looking around. Then we realize it would mean taking on payments (the Vibe is paid for, (yea I know it is half Toyota, but is is also half Pontiac)), and then we remember how much we enjoy taking the CJ7 with its bikini top and no doors over the Cortez bridge from the Holiday Cove RV Resort and out onto Anna Maria Island every day in November, March and April (the warm dry months in FL). And every day we get a complements on the "nice Jeep". So we stick it out for another year. I could put a grand into it every year and still come out ahead.

I mentioned domestic, not just being assembled in North America, but by a North American company. You get a different viewpoint when your FIL worked for GM Truck and Coach for 40 years and you see what globalization has done to cities like Pontiac and Flint, both just over a half hour drive. Frustrating how many seem to believe that domestic vehicles aren't good enough for them. The 1970's and 1980's soured a lot of people on quality and they still go back to that as a reason to buy from non-domestic car companies. But I have come to realize there are a lot of valid reasons that folks buy non-domestic, and I am OK with that.