assembled in mexico with parts made in mexico.big wigs at gm get all the profit and buy lamborghinis and m$ homes , while detroit is a ghost town. the more i think about it the more i hope they do fold. i already got 2 chevys , they should last my lifetime , except 1 is sitting in yard with burned wiring harness.

 

The thing I think a lot of people don't realize is that the Japanese, Korean, and European companies pay ZERO taxes on the land their factories and buildings sit on. That's a HUGE difference in the cost of doing business. Also, their employees are paid much less and most of the income derived from the sale of transplant cars does NOT stay in the US or even North America for that matter.

Most of the HHR's components come from the US. The automatic transmissions are assembled in Ontario at a plant literally a stone's throw from Detroit. That plant is actually shutting down in 2010. The engines come from New York and Tennessee. Glass and some other small components are produced in Mexico by the outside vendors. Most of the money produced from the sale of HHR's stays in the U.S. and is spent by U.S. employees. I'd much rather see a successful company share the wealth with their employees instead of state-mandated, universal health care and Social Security retirements.