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If you wish to buy American, you should arch down to your bounded Ford, GM or Chrysler dealer, right? Not so fast, Uncle Sam. Cars.com has arise its anniversary American-Made basis — and the after-effects may abruptness you.

Kicking Tires (the blog for Cars.com) explains: “For the accomplished few years we’ve been baronial cars and trucks congenital and bought in the U.S. for Cars.com’s American-Made Index. This index, which takes into annual a vehicle’s locations agreeable and all-embracing sales, has afflicted radically over the endure two years, and afresh for 2010, we’ve apparent some huge changes.”

Autoblog writes, “First and foremost, the Toyota Camry is (somewhat ironically) still at the top of the American Fabricated Index. But additional abode is a bit of a surprise, with the Honda Accord authoritative a admission actualization in the runner-up position. Notably, it takes the abode of the Ford F-150, which avalanche off the account entirely.”

Why acquire the F-150 and added calm pickups collapsed off the list? “So abounding locations for Detroit maker’s auto trucks are fabricated across that they hardly can be advised all-American vehicles,” writes USA Today.

PickupTrucks.com reports, “As afresh as the 2007 archetypal year, the Silverado 1500 and its GMC Sierra 1500 affinity were rated at 90 percent for calm locations content. (DPC, appropriate by the American Automobile Labeling Act back 1994, ante the percentage, by cost, of a model’s locations that arise from the U.S. or Canada; medium- and able trucks are not rated.) The F-150 was rated at 75 percent DPC for the 2009 archetypal year. That’s not the case anymore.” This year, however, “the F-150 fell to 55 percent for the 2010 archetypal year. The Silverado, on a abiding DPC abatement back 2007, has biconcave this year beneath 75 percent — our minimum beginning for AMI-eligible vehicles. Both pickups abide to advertise well, but falling DPCs acquire bedeviled their AMI rankings.”

There is one calm auto in the top ten: the Dodge Ram 1500. But, the baronial alone applies to Quad and Crew cab models. The approved cab Ram is accumulated in Mexico. Half of the top ten cars arise from calm auto makers.

The DPC of the number-one ranked Camry and the number-two ranked Accord are aloft 75 percent and both cars are accumulated in the United States. The Camry is accumulated in Georgetown, Kentucky and Lafayette, Indiana; the Accord is accumulated in Marysville, Ohio and Lincoln, Alabama.

Here are the top ten cars from the index:

1. Toyota Camry

2. Honda Accord

3. Ford Escape

4. Ford Focus

5. Chevy Malibu

6. Honda Odyssey

7. Dodge Ram 1500 Quad and Crew Cab (the individual cab is accumulated in Mexico)

8. Toyota Tundra

9. Jeep Wrangler

10. Toyota Sienna

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