Mustang japanese??
 

Some kid I know keeps telling me my '02 GT is "at least 45% Japanese parts/Japanese made"... is there any truth in that??

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shouldnt be... tell that kid your car is detroit iron!! not jap scrap. :D:):)

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I wouldn't be surprised if it was. So many American companies are trying to save money by outsourcing (?).

For example: I purchased two computers from Dell. Supposedly American. Well their customer service people are located in other countries and I have a hard time understanding what they are saying because their accents are so heavy. The last two were Indian.

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Sorry to say that the outsourcing of ford went to mexico, so your mustang was most likely a mexican.

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ford does have a plant in hiroshima but i'm not sure what they make there......probably mazdas.

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Well thats just cause they can pay the people below minimum wage over there so they forward their calls to them etc.

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Dell's products are partially japanese; I believe most of their hard drives are Hitachi (especially for laptops), but that's true for most computer parts anyway.
Dell outsources tech support, as most companies do now, to India, since it's a lot easier to pay 10 cents an hour to an Indian who knows just as much as an American who gets paid $5.15 an hour.

So likely the 'Stang is Mexican American???

Maybe I should rename her to "Cheech"........

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japan outsources just like us, so even many things that are japanease products arent necessarily made in japan. Although we still make some of our cars, detroit and i believe a lot in NC

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i know for my truck it was built in the USA and most of its parts are from the USA... except the HEMI... the HEMI motors are built in MEXICO!!! [&:] i bet some of the stangs are built in mexico also. probably drivetrain parts are somewhat from there.... dont think they are from japan though... my moms got a honda oddessy and only the tranny is from japan... the rest of the stuff is from the USA. ;):)

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dont forget about missouri. they have alot of cars being made there. also there is a ford factory just alittle south of me. it builds taurus and focuses. :D

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Where is the Mustang factory?

I was driving to Toronto last weekend and saw the Freestar factory.. jsut curious if there is a 'stang factory :D

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Why would ford spend more money to import japanese parts when they can make them cheaply here?

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i think the one i went by builds stangs also... but only the V6ers... not any GT's or cobras.... all of the SVT cars are built in Detroit at the SVT factory up there. and i think the normal ones are built somewhere in the mid east. check your window sticker to see where it was built. i will check my window sticker cause now im curious of where it is from. :D:)

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Dont believe anything on products that say where there made. I made plenty of parts in a machine shop i used to work for (in the US) and the last operation in the program would cut a "Made in Japan" into it.

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i honestly dont think it matters for the car where the parts were made. japan or usa, i'm sure they still use the same materials and parts. for example, the hemi in mexico. i don't think dodge would design the motor one way, and then build it a different way with different parts in mexico. i'm sure the motor would be the same no matter where it was made, seeing as its being made to US specs.

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Ford sells cars in japan and europe. I'm sure it's cheaper to assemble those cars over there then ship them over the pacific. Regarding parts. I'm sure many ford parts are outsourced to subcontractors who have a list of specifications that they must abide by. Quality Control insures that these rigid guidelines are met so it honestly doesn't matter who makes them. Any machine shop any where it the world can do it. Regarding dell and india, it's very easy to outsource customer support because you don't need to be anywhere near the factory to do it. All you need is an office with a bunch of phones and computers giving the support person the information they need. Because of this, your dell computer is cheaper and you get more customer support because dell does this. The cost of living in india is also much cheaper. The workers there need alot less money to live comparably well to someone from the US. The machines themselves, however, are assembled in the U.S. (made to order) which is why they ship so quickly. The components could come from anywhere though (as these are shipped in bult to the warehouse that assembles them. When the cost of shipping outweighs the cost of local production, production happens in the U.S. Of course almost all R&D happens here so whoever makes it is just making a U.S. design.

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True dat, check it out, i like the things they did to make it a jap version

Jap 35th

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ALL mustangs EVER built through 2004 were in Dearborn, Mich. about 45 minutes from me. the 2005+ are now built in flat rock , mi.

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That's right. Alot of the trucks are made here in Toronto and Magna in Newmarket and Aurora makes alot of the parts for Mustangs.....bumpers, window mechanisms, grilles, seat tracks, etc.

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If you are really curious, just go to your local Ford dealer and check out the new car stickers on the left over '04's and new '05's. Right on the sticker they have to print what percentage of the car was built in the US and elsewhere. True they may assemble some Mustangs for sale in other countries around the world but all US sold Stangs were built in the US with mostly US parts. Many of Ford's large cars like Lincolns and Grand Marquis/Crown Vic's are made in Canada. I thought Ford opened a brand new plant just for building 2005 Mustangs. I know the old, traditional Mustang plant closed down last year.

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Sweet.

when I bought the car, the guy kept the sticker and it's in the glove compartment now; I'll check it out when I go to the gym later today. Thanks!

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every mustang from'64 to '04 was assembled at dearborn assembly. EVERY single one worldwide. now they're made in flat rock. the UAW workers that used to work at dearborn assembly got transferred to the new dearborn truck plant where they make the F150.

Flat rock is not a new plant by any means. they made the probe there. and they make the Mazda 6 there now on the same line as the mustang.

lincoln LS, Towncar, and thunderbird in ------- Wixom Michigan
taurus and mercury sable ---------------------- Atlanta Georgia
five hundred, freestyle, mercury montego --- Chicago Illinois
F series trucks ----------------------------------- Cuautitlan Mexico, Dearborn Michigan
Ranger-------------------------------------------- St. Paul Minnesota
focus ---------------------------------------------- St. Petersburg Russia, Hermosillo Mexico,
F Series, Escape --------------------------------- Kansas City Kansas
F Series Excursion ------------------------------- Louisville Kentucky
Econoline Van ------------------------------------ Lorain Ohio
Explorer, Mercury Mountaineer ----------------- Louisville Kentucky
Expedition, Navigator ---------------------------- Wayne Michigan
F Series ------------------------------------------- Norfolk Virginia
Freestar, Mercury Monterrey -------------------- Oakville Ontario
Econoline, Escape -------------------------------- Avon Lake Ohio
F Series ------------------------------------------- Oakville Ontario
Explorer, Mountaineer, Aviator ----------------- Hazelwood Missouri
Crown Vic, Grand Marquis, Marauder ---------- Talbotville Ontario
Focus ---------------------------------------------- Wayne Michigan


All prototypes and experimental vehicles------- Allen Park Michigan

Did i forget anything?

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there are lots of others throughout the world but if you bought your vehicle in the US it was made at one of the above plants.

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theres some plant near me... it may have been the alanta one though... cause i drive by it alot going to alanta... i may have been confused. cause that one has the same cars i was talkin about. the taruses. good info!

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I work for a supplyer of Ford, and several other major manufactureres, we build the plastic interor parts for cars and trucks (dashes, ac vents etc). Most of the parts for even forein cars are acutally made in America. I am sure there are some parts that arn't, but everyone is trying to go to a "One for One" basis of production.

For example, we make the centerpanel and speedo shroud for the Ford Escape, and the Mazda Tribute. I am talking about the panel that houses the radio, and has several switches for 4WD etc. We acutally build and pack the panels in the same order they are built at the plant in KC. When a car comes down the line, the box that is next will have the correct panel in it.

Manufacturers don't want to wait for parts to be shipped overseas, so they have to be built here. That way, if anything goes wrong, any changes need to be made, or they simply want to change their order they can do so and we can deilever in a few days instead of a few weeks.

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yeah but its not cost effective to have parts built elswhere then shiped here with high taxes on imports.
about the only thing i could think of that MIGHT be made in japan or china is the cpu for the car...but chances are more then likely its also made here.
but some fords are made in other countries and thats because its a global economy...its cheeper to sell your product to somone in china if your building that product in china...
and about dell....the only thing american about them is they are based in the country lol...

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thats like the vette and owens corning...they either make the body pannels or ship the composit fiberglas as their being built its called lean manufacturing and it was started by toyota, theres more to it then just that but im sure you probly know about that.

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Between nathansmith50 and 2000GT4.6, I think we covered all the bases. Good info to know. That must be one of the reasons I (we) kind of feel at "home" driving our Mustangs. Thanks guys.

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Yeah, thanks for all the info; I thought the kid was kinda off by telling me the car was Japanese.. didn't seem smart (cost effective, long distances means longer time to change orders, etc..) or "traditional" (ford being an AMERICAN company), just wanted to confirm that the 'stang WAS american, like I thought.