Rookie49 Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 (edited) Sorry came close to a bash. took it off. Edited April 2, 2007 by Rookie49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonesome Ford Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Lavernia is almost the east side of S.A. now. Yea, and multiple subdivisions going up all the time. The nearest land w/o major development would be past LaVernia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 For all you who think that them building homes around the Toyota plant will last. Once word gets out about the horrible smell that lingers in the early morning air, you wont be able to give your house away.... Go ahead and buy up all the land you want.... Oh and as far as the A&M campus goes. Thank you Mrs. Lilanne(sp?) for all the great years of racing. Thank you TD and Tammy for several good years of racing... Time to look for a place to build SAS II... Know several people who are talking to investers at the moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REBELRACER Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 (edited) Thank you TD and Tammy for several good years of racing so two years are several? lol just messing with ya Edited April 3, 2007 by REBELRACER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyJack Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 If Americans bought American, there would be no Toyota plant. The men and women working at Toyota could be working at Ford, Chevrolet or Dodge. This is my opinion! Bobby Jack Proud owner of 2 Ford trucks to haul our 2 GM racecars all built in America with mostly? American parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps48 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 I'll stand by my prediction that 10 years from now there will be nothing built on the SAS property. Thirty years ago PAS closed up...still waiting to see houses cover it up. Longhorn has been idle for a long time...no HEB or Wallymart, just weeds. GoogleEarth shows how small that property is. It will be the most expensive property for miles around. As the most expensive it will be the last to sell. HEB & Wally wont wait that long to buy (actually they dont buy,they just lease) JMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Racer88, They did a story on 20/20 about six months back about American cars and Car Plants. Funny thing was over half the cars coming in and out of the plant were "foreign" GO FIGURE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 more like the pieces are "outsourced" and then "assembled" in America Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Tommy, I went to the Tundra plant on Sat. They have gotten it to where the outsourcing is done in the plant now... The place is truly amazing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie49 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 (edited) I tell everybody all the time that if you want an american built truck buy a toyota. Both Ford and General Motors have been either assembling and/or manufacturing in Canada and Mexico since the 60's for sure and probably longer. Edited April 3, 2007 by NickHolt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soaker Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 All you people bitching about G.M. being built outside the good ole USA, well my brother builds trucks for GM. When did Shreveport, Louisiana and Dallas, Texas get moved out of the USA. These plants build the Colorado, H3, Tahao, Suburbans and Silverado. If my geographical map is correct these are built in the good ole USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfat Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Good point Soaker. The majority of GM is built outside the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 i may have some kids building suburbans,yukons,tahoes,and escalades at the gm plant in silao,mexico-lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jracer98 Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 Look into "why" it makes good financial sense for Toyota to assemble cars in the US at a time more and more of the US cars assembly is being moved to other countries. Find out the answer to "Why does it benefit Toyota but not Ford/Chevrolet/Chrysler?" Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KISS_Racing Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 The Japanese have always assembled there trucks here. They were shipped without beds to cut down the "duty cost" then assembled in California where they became a "TRUCK"... Don't forget GM/Holden builds in Austrialia... Dodge builds in Mexico with there weak @$$ paint jobs... Next time you get a chance look at a Black Dodge Truck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racer Duck Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Thought this would be enlightening to some: "What is an American Car" (from Consumer Reports, April 2007) You might expect that a vehicle that says "Ford" on the hood would be made in the US. But if that Ford were a Fusion, you would be wrong. It is built in Ford's Factory in Hermosillo, Mexico. Ford isn't the only one. Only 35 percent of the parts in the Chrysler PT Cruiser, built in Mexico, come from the US. The headquarters of Daimler-Chrysler is in Germany. Transoceanic tie-ups are more the norm than the exception. Nissan is controlled by the French company Renault. Volvo, Jaguar and Land Rover are owned by Ford, though at least the cars are still made in the countries where their nameplates were first stamped. General Motors owns part of Suzuki and all that remains of the Korean automaker Daewoo. The Chevrolet Aveo is imported from South Korea, and only 4 percent of its parts come from the US. BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all build vehicles in the US. Combined, they produce more than a third as many vehicles in the US as do the Big Three. Many of the parts for these vehicles still come from overseas. By law, every new vehicle sold in the US has to have a window sticker that states what percent of its components are domestically produced. Parts made by suppliers account for about 70 percent of the cost of a vehicle, says James Rubenstein, an automative analyst at Miama University in Oxford, Ohio. As much as 80 percent of the US built Toyota Camry comes from the US. That compares with only 30 percent of the parts of the "American" Ford Fusion. Still, across their lineups, Rubenstein says, American companies build a lot more of their cars and parts Domestically. "Import" Cars built in the US: Acura TL BMW X5 Honda Accord Honda Civic Honda CR-V Honda Odyssey Hyndai Sonata Infiniti QX56 Mazda 6 Mazda Tribute Mercedes M-Class Mercedes R-Class Mitsubishi Galant Nissan Altima Nissan Maxima Nissan Pathfinder Nissan Titan Saab 9-7X Suburu Legacy Toyota Camry Toyota Sienna Toyota Tundra Cars built in Canada and sold in the US: US MAKES Buick LaCrosse Chevrolet Impala Chevrolet Monte Carlo Chevrolet Silverado Chrysler 300 Chrysler minivans Dodge Charger Ford Crown Victoria GMC Sierra Pontic Grand Prix IMPORTS Acura MDX Honda Civic Honda Pilot Honda Ridgeline Lexus RX350 Toyota Matrix Toyota Corolla Cars built in Mexico and sold in the US: US MAKES Buick Rendezvous Caddilac Excalade ESV & EXT Chevrolet Avalanche Chevrolet HHR Chevrolet Silverado Chevrolet Suburban Chrysler PT Cruiser Dodge Ram Ford F-Series Ford Fusion Lincoln MKZ Mercury Milan IMPORTS Honda Accord Nissan Sentra Nissan Versa Toyota Tacoma Volkswagen Jetta Volkswagen New Beetle "US" Cars built in South Korea and sold in the US: Chevrolet Aveo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford27 Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 If Americans bought American, there would be no Toyota plant. The men and women working at Toyota could be working at Ford, Chevrolet or Dodge. This is my opinion! Bobby Jack Proud owner of 2 Ford trucks to haul our 2 GM racecars all built in America with mostly? American parts. AMEN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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