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[BigRedDog]

Article, video and pics at: 

http://www.clickondetroit.com/automotive/21640832/detail.html

[Frenchfry]

Made in Mexico 

[Pax]

Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan/Lincoln MKX are Hecho in Mexico.  Keep buying those foreign-built cars, people, not enough of us or our neighbors are out of jobs yet.

[family man]

Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan/Lincoln MKX are Hecho in Mexico.  Keep buying those foreign-built cars, people, not enough of us or our neighbors are out of jobs yet.

So should we buy a Camry or accord that is made in America? What's more important, where the money goes or where it's made?

[mach-er]

The vehicle line is designed and developed in Michigan (along with several other remote testing locations, most of which are in our good old USA).  Perhaps by some of your neighbors.  A good portion of the subsystem and component content is designed and developed in Michigan and elsewhere in the US.  Some by your neighbors.

Corporate revenues go somewhere.  Michigan sounds better than somewhere else.  Then, some of your neighbors will get wages and salaries and benefits.  Future programs get funded.  People get hired.  Taxes get paid.  Sure, you could advocate for the Illinois built Taurus, or Michigan built Mustang (my favorite, hence the user name) & Focus as alternatives.  But, if a family wants a mid-size sedan, they can't go wrong with the Fusion/Milan/MKX.  Even if it is assembled in Mexico, the pesos come back to Michigan.  And, they are darn fine cars to boot.

[Pax]

BMWs are darn fine cars too, and buying one of those would put a few euros in the pockets of the dealership/salesman/repair shops.  The point is one of "our" automakers is forsaking American unskilled labor in lieu of foreign unskilled labor to build their cars cheaper, and then not passing along those savings onto the buyers of them.  We can't afford to have any manufacturing jobs leave the country if we hope to be a "free" people - when a people has to import all of its manufactured items it ceases to be free and ceases to have a middle-class.  If all that remains are engineers and peasants who, exactly, will be buying anybody's cars in sufficient quantity to justify the R & O expenditures?  American designed, supplied, and built is the only answer to what ails us in the automotive sector.

[Frenchfry]

I simply want a domestic vehicle that is actually assembled in the USA and I'd hope other people would check the origin before purchasing.

Those Mexicans are paid very little yet those cars aren't exactly bargains....well neither are the domestic products but at least their employees are earning a decent living.

http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0707

http://autos.aol.com/article/domestic-or-import

http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/141726/article.html

[Chips]

Based on analysis of 13 Fusion-Hybrid reviews and test drives.
Avg. Paid:$27,387 - $27,387
MSRP: $27,625 - $27,625
Invoice: $25,313 - $25,313
MPG: 41 City / 36 Hwy

If I only had an extra $27,387, plus $1643 sales tax and
$800 a year higher insurance.

[Crox77]

We just test drove a Ford Fusion and I wasn't that impressed.  It's incredibly smaller than I had initially thought.  Not to mention outrageously priced.

[Pax]

. . . and "imported," too , Crux.  With all that cheap 3rd-World Mexican labor they exploited to build it one would think it would be half that price.  But it's not.

[Professor H]

Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan/Lincoln MKX are Hecho in Mexico.  Keep buying those foreign-built cars, people, not enough of us or our neighbors are out of jobs yet.

You must be walking around barefoot and naked - as someone who only buys American....
Shoes and clothing are rarely made here anymore.

Ford is the only company that didn't take your tax money (Bailout) and they have an award that has been going to the foreign companies.   Give them some credit for a good product.

I like my Fusion, and the gas mileage it gets - as I get ready for the increase in fuel after obama's cap n trade goes into full effect.   We'll all be driving mini cars like in Europe...

[Pax]

Shoes and clothing aren't made here anymore - because of our government.
Ford mortgaged every single piece of property it owned outright to the very same international bankers the founder decried.
Because they make a "good product" elsewhere in the world and put thousands of our friends and neighbors out of jobs is no good reason to applaud the efforts.
Cap-and-trade and mini-cars like they've been driving in Europe for decades are two other governmental schemes to extort cash out of the sheeple despite scientific evidence of the necessity for either.
*#$% the Fusion and unscientific schemes to control people.

[lordfly]

Shoes and clothing aren't made here anymore - because of our government.
Ford mortgaged every single piece of property it owned outright to the very same international bankers the founder decried.
Because they make a "good product" elsewhere in the world and put thousands of our friends and neighbors out of jobs is no good reason to applaud the efforts.
Cap-and-trade and mini-cars like they've been driving in Europe for decades are two other governmental schemes to extort cash out of the sheeple despite scientific evidence of the necessity for either.
*#$% the Fusion and unscientific schemes to control people.

So what in the world do you drive, a car made from straw and hate?