"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message news:ZC39f.5009

Interesting you pick Toyota. Many of their cars are built in the US too.
As is some industrial products like forklift trucks (I've bought 4 of
them).
My plan was to "buy American" but the American brand had imported engines
and the foreign brand was made in Kentucky so that idea had no merit.

The fact that they're built in the US, does that mean that the construction
materials are of higher quality or the assembly methods are superior?
Perhaps both? Considering that it's owned by Toyota, what's to stop
management from making sure that both these aspects of construction are the
same as might be done in their overseas plants? ~ cheaper make?

side by side comparisons, Toyota was the preferred truck by all that test
drove them in our plant.

The same questions apply. Did they prefer them because of construction
quality, assembly quality or perhaps both?