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Here's more information concerning Ford and ownership of other car companies.
During the 1990s, Ford Motor Company bought Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Aston Martin.

Yep and Volvo is worse off then before Ford bought them. Jaguar ,Land Rover are now made in China and run by an Indian company. Aston Martin is non relevant. Not good examples that you cited.

Your "truck" company is headquartered here.

toyota motor corporation
Company Address
Head Office 1 Toyota-Cho, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture 471-8571, Japan

So you are saying you are cool with "Your" truck's company having a Michigan address and a "Made in Mexico" sticker on it?

BTW, I am cool with "my" truck's company address in Japan with a "Made in the USA" sticker.

It's tough to buy "Made in the USA" anymore. I even bought a Snap-on multi tool the other day that turned out to be made in China.

I'm happy to say my truck helped put money in the pocket of U.S. workers.

Ford no doubt builds good trucks, but so does Toyota.

Here we go with a basic economics lesson again.
Ford is an American company and the money stays in the USA.

toyota is a Japanese company. The money goes to Japan. This contributes to the trade deficit and this makes you happy?
Some people just don't get it.

I dont have a dog in this fight, But the way I see it. Fords' corperate offices are here in the USA, but the $ doesn't stay here cause they do have to pay the corperations in Mexico (or wherever else they have things built for them) or they wouldn't do the work for them. Toyota actually pays more American employees to build their stuff here. So why is one better than the other? Personally I like the fact that toyota is employing the woeking class here, where as ford is paying the big wigs here and the working class in Mexico. YMMV.

Again, some people just don't get it.

It's obvious you like the above statement. Well, that line of thinking is exactley what helped countries outside the U.S. get a foothold in the auto and truck market, among other things, in this country. Rather than keep up with the competition, and build better products, some companies just bragged about being an American company, insinuating that made them better, regardless of how bad their products were. They practically invited countries outside our borders to come and sell here. Well, it bit them big time and they will pay for that forever.

I am on record here for saying I think it is much harder to buy a bad pickup in today's world than a good one. I also don't like the way the bailouts went so that leaves two brands I MYSELF won't buy. Other people's mileage may vary and I accept that. Choosing from what is left will not be decided on whether it is "an American company" but rather what I feel is the best truck for me. Brand loyalty means nothing to me as I have had a slew of different brands of autos and trucks over the last fifty years. Most were pretty good, some just fair, a very few were terrible for one reason or another. Today if they all seem equal I will try to choose what helped the American worker the most.

To sum it up, when you despise a vehicle made by a company located outside the U.S. just remember "YOUR" company helped let them get established here by building products less desireable than their's years ago. Do you get that?

Less desirable product? Quick, name 10 innovations the Japanese have brought to the car and truck market. Go!

If tough conditions, heavy hauling and 500,000 miles is just broken in, it's a different world. The word is C-U-M-M-I-N-S.

Jap innovations ? Drifting racing.

Inovations don't necessarily drive vehicle sales. There are many other things that cause Mr. or Mrs. customer to favor one product over another. Reliability is a big one. It's up to the automotive companies to listen and respond. For starters why did two of the big three in the U.S. need to be bailed out. It sure wasn't because they sold too many vehicles was it? Something else was obviously more desireable than their vehicles in the customer's eyes. And don't try to pawn it off on the "people are stupid" theory. Remember the phrase, "The customer is always right". The customer didn't like what somebody was selling so they went elsewhere.

Ford to their credit held on without needing bailout money. I commend them for that. But, I still like their competitor's truck better so that's what I bought even though it cost more money. Obviously you don't agree and that is your privelege. But if you think a vehicle made in the United States with a foreign companies name on it is automatically inferior to one with an American name on it you are only fooling yourself. It's thinking like that that allowed the foreign companies to get their foot in the door to begin with.

Inovations don't necessarily drive vehicle sales. There are many other things that cause Mr. or Mrs. customer to favor one product over another. Reliability is a big one. It's up to the automotive companies to listen and respond. For starters why did two of the big three in the U.S. need to be bailed out. It sure wasn't because they sold too many vehicles was it? Something else was obviously more desireable than their vehicles in the customer's eyes. And don't try to pawn it off on the "people are stupid" theory. Remember the phrase, "The customer is always right". The customer didn't like what somebody was selling so they went elsewhere.

Ford to their credit held on without needing bailout money. I commend them for that. But, I still like their competitor's truck better so that's what I bought even though it cost more money. Obviously you don't agree and that is your privelege. But if you think a vehicle made in the United States with a foreign companies name on it is automatically inferior to one with an American name on it you are only fooling yourself. It's thinking like that that allowed the foreign companies to get their foot in the door to begin with.

It's obvious where your loyalties lie.
Again, some people just don't get it.