There is no domestic content requirement for cars sold in the U.S. Plenty of cars with no domestic content are sold here. paul On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:11 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> Not just shipping costs, domestic content requirements, (for the US > Mexico and Canada), and labor costs, (non union labor is much less > expensive in the US than it is in Europe. Do you guys even have non > union labor? > > John Francis wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:14:10PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: >> >>> Cotty wrote: >>> >>>> On 9/2/07, Adam Maas, discombobulated, unleashed: >>>> >>>> >>>>> It's built by BMW and designed by BMW. Just by them in England. >>>>> MINI is >>>>> just a BMW nameplate and BMW builds and designs in many places >>>>> (including the US). >>>>> >>>> That's a computer talking. The people building the mini are mostly >>>> recruited and live locally. They are the same people who were >>>> building >>>> rover cars, and they are Brits. They wear overalls with BMW >>>> logos and >>>> they get paychecks with money from German banks. The cars are >>>> made by >>>> Brits. I've seen it. >>>> >>> And if you buy a BMW X-Series, it was made in Georgia, USA. So? >>> Still a >>> BMW factory and BMW design team. >>> >> >> The MINI is as much a BMW as the K10D is a Hoya camera. >> >> And while BMW might build X-Series cars in Georgia (and Z4s in N. >> Carolina, >> I believe) they were still designed in Germany; the BMW plants in >> the USA >> are just offshore manufacturing locations to save shipping costs. >> Not the >> same thing at all. >> >> >> > > > -- > -- > > The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. > -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
