Chevrolet Corvette Ranks Fifth in Cars.com’s 2021 American-Made Index

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Chevrolet Corvette Ranks Fifth in Cars.com's 2021 American-Made Index

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For many people, the Chevy Corvette is as American as baseball, hotdogs, and apple pie.

The latest annual survey by Cars.com offers tangible proof as the new Corvette ranks as the fifth most American-made car in 2021.

That ranked behind the top-ranked Tesla Model 3, second-ranked Ford Mustang, third-ranked Tesla Model Y, and fourth-ranked Jeep Cherokee.

Five major areas “play a significant role” in the rankings, including assembly location, parts content, engine origins, transmission origins, and U.S. manufacturing workforce.

Helping the Corvette in the rankings is its final assembly point of Bowling Green, Kentucky, where it’s been built since 1981.

Data from the American Automobile Labeling Act (AALA), which requires automakers to report the overall percentage of U.S. and Canadian content represented by their vehicles, also is used in the Cars.com study. Cars.com compensates for AALA’s combination of U.S. and Canadian parts by factoring in engine and transmission origins into its vehicle scoring.

The study says the rankings are more important than ever considering production disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Suez Canal blockage in March, and the ongoing global microchip shortage.


Source:
Cars.com

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3 COMMENTS

  1. The Corvette use to be higher on the list in past years. And as far as Tesla goes, how will they maintain that standing when they start producing cars in China?

  2. The Teslas sold here will be made in the US (Fremont, CA). The Chinese ones will only be sold in Asia.

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