pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/carbuying/" rel="tag"Car Buying/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/plants-manufacturing/" rel="tag"Plants/Manufacturing/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=topamp;subject=amiamp;story=amMade0709"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/06/camryusa_opt.jpg" //abr /br /Cars.com has once again published its annual a href="http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=topamp;subject=amiamp;story=amMade0709"American-Made Index/a that rates vehicles built within the United States based on their sales and percentage of domestic parts content. This year's list has a number of movers and shakers based mainly on the fact that a troubled economy has torpedoed sales of some models and others are now ineligible because their parent brands are being canceled.br /br /The Ford F-150 has lost its top ranking in the American-Made Index for the first time since Cars.com began producing the list back in 2006. The new No. 1 is - gasp - the Toyota Camry. Assembled in Georgetown, KY and Lafayette, IN, the Camry's upswing in domestic parts content helped it barely edge out the F-150, which has seen both its sales and domestic parts content fall year-over-year. Toyota, in fact, had four models make the American-Made Index this year including the Sienna, Tundra and first-timer Venza.br /br /General Motors placed the Chevrolet Malibu, Silverado and GMC Sierra, while Ford had the aforementioned F-150, and list newcomer Ford Taurus, which enjoys the highest domestic parts content of 90 percent. No Chrysler vehicles made the top ten, although one Honda did: the Lincoln, AL Odyssey has an 80 percent domestic parts content rating and thus sewed up the #10 spot. You can view the full list after the jump and visit a href="http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=topamp;subject=amiamp;story=amMade0709"Cars.com/a to read more about how the index was produced. br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=topamp;subject=amiamp;story=amMade0709"Cars.com/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/30/toyota-camry-tops-this-years-cars-com-american-made-index/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emToyota Camry tops this year's Cars.com American-Made Index/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/30/toyota-camry-tops-this-years-cars-com-american-made-index/"Toyota Camry tops this year's Cars.com American-Made Index/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:32:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=topamp;subject=amiamp;story=amMade0709Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/30/toyota-camry-tops-this-years-cars-com-american-made-index/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19082634/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/30/toyota-camry-tops-this-years-cars-com-american-made-index/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3vSpaBf-iOWQ513dC5VBWS3e3vw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3vSpaBf-iOWQ513dC5VBWS3e3vw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3vSpaBf-iOWQ513dC5VBWS3e3vw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3vSpaBf-iOWQ513dC5VBWS3e3vw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=DAAidyXt_ds:YsyUpIjParo:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=DAAidyXt_ds:YsyUpIjParo:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=DAAidyXt_ds:YsyUpIjParo:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=DAAidyXt_ds:YsyUpIjParo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/DAAidyXt_ds" height="1" width="1"/

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A Camry might be American made but its not an American car.

The company that builds it is not an American company and any profits from the sale of the car go back to JAPAN.

Thats the thing people dont understand about cars made in the USA that are really a foreign car. All the funds go back to the country of origin. The people that work there get paid and spend that money in the US but the rest of the money from the sale goes where? back to the country of origin.