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The Tundra is assembled in the USA,and has as many USA made parts as any other pickup.

The American Workers are paid,the American parts suppliers are paid,the Utilities and maintenance for the facilities are paid to American companies,and the rest goes to Toyota.

Now lets look at GM.A good many of their trucks are made in Canada,so wages go to Canadian workers,Maintenance and Utilities to Canadian companies,and the profit to GM Canada.
Then we have the Chevy Avalanche which is made in Mexico.Wages go to Mexican workers,maintenance and utilities are paid to Mexican companies,and the profits go to GM.

Then we have Dodge who also manufactures trucks in Mexico,pays wages to Mexicans,and maintenance and utilities to Mexicans.

The profits in many cases go to wealthy shareholders,not to the average person,and I could care less whose wealthy people get the profits if local people make money as well.

We have GM and Ford who are closing plants or moving them outside of the USA and Canada,and laying off workers.We also have Toyota who is building more plants in the USA and is employing more local workers.Which benefits the average American more?

Not true. The Toyota Tundra has 75% U.S./Canada parts content. My GMC Sierra is 85% U.S./Canada parts content

Toyota is also consolidating their Tundra plants since they are selling like the dog crap they resemble. Toyota only sold 75K Tundras for the first 6 months of this year. Ford sold 164K F-150's and GM sold 148K Silverados/Sierra through same period.

Funny how the market rewards Toyota cars for good quality through high sales, but Toyota can't give away Tundras.

Top 10 Pickups Sales Figures
Year-to-Date (YTD) Aug 2008

Ford F-Series
359,971 -25.2% YTD
August 2008: 40,429
August 2007: 69,220

Chevrolet Silverado
320,074 -24.8% YTD
August 2008: 55,765
August 2007: 67,486

Dodge Ram
175,246 -29.0% YTD
August 2008: 24,974
August 2007: 32,309

GMC Sierra
115,067 -17.1% YTD
August 2008: 20,297
August 2007: 23,574

Toyota Tacoma
108,137 -11.4% YTD
August 2008: 12,407
August 2007: 15,094

Toyota Tundra
107,330 -14.5% YTD
August 2008: 17,401
August 2007: 18,919

http://www.autospies.com/news/Cars-...e-American-than-Ram-AND-Silverado-32932/

GM's axle strike earlier this year had an unintended consequence - as Chevy shifted truck production to Mexico, they decreased their truck's domestic content enough to make the Tundra more American. The Ram and the Silverado are now about 25% made in Mexico (according to their federally mandated domestic content stickers).

http://www.pickuptrucks.com/html/otf0999.html



All truck sales are indeed down in 2008.However a quick look at the numbers shows that Fords F series sales dropped 25.2% compared to last year.Silverado sales are down 24.8%,Ram sales are down 29%,and Sierra sales are down 17.1%

Yet Tundra sales are only down 14.5% and Tacoma sales are down 11.4%.It sure looks like Ford ,GM and Dodge are being hit far worse than Toyota as far as truck sales are concerned.Toyota is cutting back on manufacturing numbers,but they aren't closing plants like GM and Ford.

When you sell ten times more full size trucks than Toyota, yes, a market unfriendly to full size trucks is going to hit the market leaders harder. Toyota just had a model change. F-150 hasn't had one in a few years, that will effect % sales decreases as well.

Besides the Tundra is for girls. It could never tow my fiver.

I would dearly love to own a Toyota, but I just can't bring myself to do it. I'll admit I'm overly patriotic, but the Bataan Death March notwithstanding here's another tidbit: I June of 1942, we decicively defefeated the japanese fleet at Midway. Both sides paid a very high price in ships, planes and men. There were four American Fliers fished out of the water by the jap navy. The historical record shows that after "severe" interrogation, they were tied to water-filled drums and thrown overboard...while still alive. I guess were I Jewish, I wouldn't buy German either...jorge

Obviously if you sell more trucks,a market slowdown will result in a greater reduction as to the number of trucks selling,but it should effect the entire market by a similar percentage.The percentage numbers posted prove that this isn't the case.

Further if you take the total number of trucks sold this year compared to the number sold by the same time last year,and compare the number sold by Toyota,Toyota has actually increased their percentage share of the sales.

As well,the 2007 Tundra was the first true full sized pickup ever offered by Toyota,so they have only been selling a true full sized truck for about 1-1/2 years.Look at the head start that the other companies had in building a client base.Toyota is certainly not going to challenge the other companies as far as total truck sales are concerned for at least several years.but the fact is that their market share percentage is increasing while the opposite is true for GM,Ford and Dodge.

Toyota which had the newest design, had the lower decrease in sales % wise. It is a factor and has been as long as truck sales have been compared.

No, that is factually incorrect, Toyota has not only been making full size trucks for 1.5 years. Yes, the T-100 was a full size body on a modified small truck frame BUT the Tundra has been around since 2000. I seriously looked at a 2000 as I liked the styling pre 2007. They were essentially a carbon copy size and styling wise of the 1997-2004 F-150. How you can claim they were not a full size truck is beyond me.

Incidentally, my Bridgestones say MADE IN USA. jorge

Buy American! Toyota's may be built here but they are not an American Co. Besides the Tundra is for girls. It could never tow my fiver.

The 2007 Tundra was a new design,but so was the 2007 Sierra/Silverado.So much for that theory.



The t-100 and 2000 to 2006 Tundras were marketed as full sized trucks,but you only need to get into the interior to see that they aren't nearly as big as any real full size trucks.Even the boxes have lower sides.Ride in the back of a 2000 Tundra extended cab for a few hours then do the same in a 2000 f-150 extended cab and then tell me that they are the same size.
The only reason that I bought my 2004 GM was because the 2004 Tundra was too small for my uses.By comparison ,my 2007 Tundra is huge.