Tony Raines - These Are The 5 Most American Cars

Republican White House encouraged Rick Santorum had his "Made from the USA" advertising campaign messaging adorning the engine and also fraction panels with Tony Raines ' No. 26 Ford Fusion in that Daytona 500.

"NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are generally concerning because American as possible get, and it is great to get my own strategy showed by one such outstanding machines," Santorum explained within a push release. "The battle weekend may be a wonderful lifestyle in which we're energized to become a a part of when all of us distributed our message. I similar to how Tony Raines flipped a number of scalps continue end of the week together with his being approved run, as well as we'd want to preserve resorting heads, too. I feel we are both equally wanting for just a win while in the end."

The difficulty for your Santorum campaign, though, can be this nobody seems to have advised the actual advertising campaign that this Fusion is literally made in Ford's Hermasillo, Mexico factory.

The North American Free Trade Act, together with an ever more global overall economy as well as automotive industry, includes achieved it complicated with regard to politicians, in addition to consumers, in order to cleanly engage in the "Buy American" card. Indeed, a good yearly analysis through Cars.com rating vehicles as "most American", dependant on their parts content, put the Georgetown, Kentucky-built Toyota Camry atop their list regarding 2011. The runner-up ended up being the actual Marysville, Ohio-built Honda Accord.

The Santorum media office did not answer AOL Autos' queries at push time.

Not merely usually are those Camrys built in U.S. factories, but they have got most of their content found from U.S. providers and plants; extra thus when compared with countless automobiles manufactured by General Motors, Ford along with Chrysler.

The nice thing about it for the "Buy American" crowd could be that the 2013 all-new developed regular-petrol power Ford Fusion will be inbuilt Flat Rock, MI, as you move hybrid version will certainly continue being a built in Mexico.

Cars.com's total American-Made Index status the particular most-American cars or trucks depending on percentage health of their areas which are created domestically, where they will are built and how the majority is marketed to be able to U.S. buyers.

Here is the top five "most American" cars, as outlined by the particular 2011 Cars.com study: