Examining the window sticker of a new car or truck to find out its industrial bloodlines can be like reviewing one of those DNA reports to find out you’re more of a mixed breed than you imagined.“There's no vehicle on the index being made here that is 100% of, like, top to bottom American,” declared lead researcher Patrick Masterson, during an advanced briefing for the Automotive Press Association last Friday. “The highest content percentage I saw this year was 75.
That’s one of the key incentives spurring on the UAW’s amplified campaign to attempt to convince workers at those plants to join the union. So far this year the UAW won such a vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee but lost by a wide margin at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama.
Detroit-based General Motors Co. has 18 vehicles on the Index while Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. has 12.