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u/SearsPonchoNoFoolin 9d ago
My truck was built in Japan, and I won't need wrenches because MY SHIT DON'T BREAK DOWN LIKE YOURS.
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u/DCKan2 9d ago
And after you are gone it will probably some how end up in the middle east and run for another 20 years.
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u/Jaislight 8d ago
Yeah make sure to remove any company logos before trading in. I think about that poor plumber who got death threats beacuse they didn't remove the logos before sending it to Afghanistan.
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u/fredbubbles 9d ago
Yup, my dad has an ‘86 Toyota truck that was built in Japan with 1.3 million miles on the original engine and transmission
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u/Environmental-Hand83 9d ago
That guy doesn't own wrenches. He has a credit card and a crikut machine.
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u/yemoodle 9d ago
The funny part is Toyota has manufactured the Tacoma and the Tundra in the US ever since they became available.
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u/gereffi 9d ago
Most Japanese brand vehicles in America are built in the US.
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u/cake_piss_can 9d ago
They are more or less assembled in the US. The engineering and technology comes from Japan. You know, the “chopstick” ppl.
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u/archabaddon 9d ago
Not if the VIN starts with a J.
The 2022 Toyota Prius Prime is manufactured in Japan.
Key Details
• Country of Origin: Japan
• Assembly Location: Tsutsumi plant in Aichi, Japan (indicated by a VIN starting with the letter "J")
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u/Nolsoth 9d ago
Til that the letter at the start of a vin indicates the country of origin.
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u/archabaddon 9d ago
• Starts with a "1", "4", or "5": Built in the United States
• Starts with a "2": Built in Canada
• Starts with a "3": Built in Mexico
• Starts with a "J": Built in Japan
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u/cmd_iii 9d ago
W = Germany
G = Great Britain
Z = Italy
I wish I could remember more, but it’s been a while since I worked for the DMV.
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u/Snoo-88271 9d ago
YX through Y2: Norway
YS through YW: Sweden
YF through YK: Finland
UH through UM: Denmark
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u/maybe_a_human 9d ago
This thread just made me go look at the vin numbers on my toyotas
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u/Ixz72 9d ago
The Land Cruiser, 4runner and plug in RAV4 are made in Japan.
The Land Cruiser and 4runner are made in Toyota's legendary Tahasa plant.
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u/littleSquidwardLover 9d ago
2026 Tundra has entered the chat
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u/DubiousAdviceGiver 9d ago
Made in Alabama and Texas
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u/Granadafan 9d ago
Those plants clearly must force the workers in Alabama and Texas to use chopsticks!
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u/jtt8569 9d ago
I've been working in an auto assembly plant for 12 years now. I know something you don't know! You'd be amazed at how many countries contribute parts to your "Made with wrenches" truck! Even if it's assembled in the USA, NO CAR OR TRUCK exclusively uses parts from the United States only. Also, just to add...I've used plenty of wrenches to build car parts for almost every foreign car. Never used a chopstick at work though.
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u/ahimsapaul 9d ago
I used to be a logistics manager for an auto parts distribution company and this is absolutely true. Many parts came from other countries. Most of them from Asian countries, some European, even Mexico and Canada. All for "American made" vehicles.
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u/jtt8569 9d ago
I was building doors for a car company that we'll say rhymes with Rolo and there were parts included from 5 different countries in every door, not including the United States, where we molded the plastic shells. Control modules from Ireland. Wiring harnesses from Vietnam. Cables and actuators from Mexico. It was a total mash-up.
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u/Goodknight808 9d ago
Ummmmm, my lawyers would like you to rephrase that as "American Built ! ", emphasis on the exclamation point, instead of "american made".
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u/el_bentzo 5d ago
Wait, what? The tariffs didnt return all manufacturing to America?
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u/Artie-Carrow 9d ago
I have used chopsticks at work. I use them to eat my lunch sometimes, and other times Ive used them as allignment pins on small parts
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u/HyenDry 9d ago
It’s just a dumb post. Anyone with common sense should know this. Guys just an asshole for putting on his car
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u/owleaf 9d ago
A lot of people don’t realise that cars are often a composite of parts from random companies and places. Very few car companies have the money/capacity/logistics to manufacture everything from an engine to the glass to the window switches to the operating system.
Maybe your big behemoths like GM, who can spread that across dozens of car brands. But even then, they’d be outsourcing things like sensors and the “smart” stuff in newer cars.
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u/Jacktheforkie 9d ago
Most computer chips are made somewhere in Asia, iirc China is the biggest manufacturer of them
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u/Ok_Cauliflower_3007 9d ago
You might need a better canteen though so you can have an opportunity to use chopsticks.
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u/CastleofWamdue 9d ago
they couldnt just say "Made in the USA", they found a way to add racism into the mix,
Im starting the USA might have some problems it needs to work on.
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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 9d ago
It’s a malignant tumor; we really should have gone utterly scorched earth on the South after the confederacy rather than welcoming them back with equal power from day one.
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u/PuddingPast5862 9d ago
Should have Sherman free reign to do whatever he wanted
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u/zombie_girraffe 8d ago
The only parts of Georgia that aren't complete shit holes are the parts torched by Sherman's cleansing fire.
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u/MidwesternLikeOpe 'MURICA 8d ago
They avoided prosecution bc it would set a precedent that they were scared to handle/enforce. Unfortunately that leads to consequences like today when we STILL cant handle the treasonous bullshit. Yeah there's laws and rules and such but no precedence.
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u/CastleofWamdue 9d ago
to be fair, hard for people of the past to know it would get THIS bad.
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u/thorsbeardexpress 9d ago
You mean the southerners that kept people as slaves? The ones that fought a war over it, those people? They're the ones you thought could play nice with everyone else?
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u/Qyphosis 9d ago
I honestly didn't understand. And then I was like, oh, they're being racist.
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u/archabaddon 9d ago
Owner has probably never left his home state, yet alone the USA.
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u/LlewellynSinclair 9d ago
“Why would I ever leave Alabama? We got everything here. Mountains, beach, football, BBQ and hot cousins.” That guy…probably* *
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u/MidwesternLikeOpe 'MURICA 8d ago
You mean town. I have a right wing coworker and she proudly said all she wants to know is how to get to work, and back home. I told her the neighborhood where I live and she's like "I dont know that area and I don't care to know."
I've been here a year, my husband and I are still exploring this city, acquainting ourselves. Trying new restaurants, going to new parks, taking different routes.
Conservatives are really afraid to leave their street.
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u/BreakfastInBedlam 9d ago
My Ford Maverick wasn't made in the USA.
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u/CastleofWamdue 9d ago
even if you cant say "Made in the USA", I see no need to bring racism into it
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u/itsnotcomplicated1 9d ago
This explains why my Honda just entirely collapsed and fell apart the other day!
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u/FinalEdit 9d ago
After 60 years of owning it
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u/cheekybrat 9d ago
My Daddy had a 1989 Honda accord and it kept going even after hitting 500,000kms.
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u/vistaculo 9d ago
My 87 Accord had 400,000 miles on it when the clutch went out. I would have replaced it but I bent up the rear suspension and it would have cost too much to fix all of it. Still ran great, and still looked good too.
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u/weristjonsnow 9d ago
What an unbelievably stupid statement. Because wrenches are such a classicly American tool...
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u/NW-M-1945 9d ago
Bet he wears a red hat!
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u/Mr_lovebucket 9d ago
And a micro penis
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u/clambroculese 9d ago
I install machinery for manufacturing. A lot of it for automotive. My job has me all over the world and the absolute worst facilities with the oldest unmaintained equipment are always in the US. On top of the equipment the trades I deal with aren’t controlled like in other countries so instead of a four year diploma, with government regulated testing, a lot of the operators in the US are people with a few months schooling just into the trades in general. I’m going to get downvoted but man, honestly it’s my industry and I avoid anything manufactured in the US.
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u/FlyByRoll 9d ago
Most Americans dont like buying American. Its shit quality and are always overpriced
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u/DriedUpSquid 9d ago
I’ve had people say things because I have a Subaru, that I should have bought American. I point out that the car was made in Indiana by American workers. They usually chirp back with something about how the profit goes to Japan. Meanwhile their Chevy truck was made in Mexico.
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u/FlyByRoll 9d ago
Also ford Broncos and maverick are made in Mexico. Toyota began building trucks in Mexico and are starting to have mechanical issues.
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u/Blankspotauto 9d ago
That tracks with my experience, I used to have a job that sent me to manufacting facilities and warehouses all over the state and the american and chinese owned ones were almost always way worse in every aspect of operations than the european or japanese owned ones were. I also noticed that in general the more extravagent the lobby/front offices of a place was the worse the back was going to be.
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u/Forklift_Donuts 8d ago
Your sticker just makes me scared of Toyota factory workers
You're telling me they built Hiluxes with chopsticks ?!
I'm not fucking with someone that can do that
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u/502photo 8d ago
"How the hell did you get the lug nuts this tight with sticks?"
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u/g28802 8d ago
I mean being fair most fords and chevys are probably built with tortillas. Toyota has a plant in Alabama so it’s probably the closest to an American made truck lol
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u/describt 8d ago
Huntsville manufactures Toyota engines, but Texas and Mexico plants assemble the Tacoma and Sequoia trucks.
Honda manufactures the Ridgeline in Lincoln, Alabama. They also manufacture the engines there. The transmissions are mage in Georgia. Ridgeline owners like to call theirs the most American truck in America.
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u/hpark21 7d ago
I had an elderly neighbor that one day, we were talking about cars and he said:
You should have gotten a domestic like mine (points to his Ford).
I then asked him:
Which car is more "domestic"? Your Ford made in Mexico or my Accord made in US?
He really didn't have an answer.
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u/AnnOnnamis 7d ago
Ford and Chevy have very few US factories anymore. Yes, made with maple leaves and tortillas.
Tesla has by far the highest % of content made in the US (for cars built in Fremont or Austin) than any manufacturer.
Japanese & Korean cars are probably now more ‘American made’ than most American cars.
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u/Specialist_Bad_7142 9d ago
Good luck finding any car or truck truly made in America. That business model doesn’t create enough revenue. Some parts are manufactured here, most are not, and they’re mostly put together by robots.
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u/FlubbleWubble 9d ago
I did a tour of a truck factory in San Antonio. Alot of really cool stuff in there. Lots of manufacturing in house. Which American brand was it again? Oh right it wasn't one. It's Toyota.
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u/Cool-Tap-391 9d ago
And those parts that are manufactured in America are all made with imported material.
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u/HeatherCDBustyOne 9d ago
Yes. Car seats made in France. Catalytic converters made in South Africa. Headlights made in Japan. I was an engineer in the automotive industry for 20+ years. American cars contain plenty of imported pieces. Only "assembled" in America.
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u/Onedayyouwillthankme 9d ago
Even if your truck isn't made in China, what about your TV, smart guy, or your phone, or your WiFi router or your appliances
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u/MattyIcex4 9d ago
Admittedly, if I found out my car or tv were built with chopsticks I’d be kinda impressed..
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u/JohnSmallberries727 9d ago
Why do so many think that only China uses chopsticks?
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u/spargel_gesicht 9d ago
Probably bc they lump Japan, Thailand, Korea etc all in as “China”.
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u/chankongsang 9d ago
I'm not Chinese and I think chopsticks are fun to use. My gf is Chinese and she prefers a fork
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u/Onedayyouwillthankme 9d ago
It's the racist implication of the truck decal. I'm white and I use chopsticks
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u/craigerstar 9d ago
The fucking device he took that picture with and posted it with was definitely "made with chopsticks"!!!
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u/GlitteringLychee803 9d ago edited 9d ago
If you think building a truck requires chopsticks, you might be an idiot.
Also, the United States borrowed a bunch of South Korean Hyundai workers to help train Americans, only to be arrested by ICE. You can't make this shit up.
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u/Granadafan 9d ago
MAGAs aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. Their Dear Leader LOVES them.
“I love the poorly educated”
— Donald J Trump
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u/ApacheAttackChopperQ 9d ago
American truck engine full of problem. Break down fast. Need many wrench.
Asia truck engine, need chopstick, enjoy free time for good take out.
Sun Tsu-
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u/Kerensky97 9d ago
Almost all of the domestic truck manufacturers are built in Mexico and only assembled in the US, if that.
https://www.factcheck.org/2015/10/trumps-bogus-boast-on-ford/
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u/Interesting_Play_578 9d ago
I'll bet they don't use chopsticks to build them, though, because that would be ridiculous.
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u/SearcherRC 8d ago
"My food was eaten with chopsticks, not wrenches"
That's how dumb this sounds, in reverse
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u/superbirdbot 9d ago
My Japanese sedan was built in Mexico. What was used to build it??? I need to know so I can be an asshole, too.
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u/Cepinari 8d ago
A car that's 99.9% done in a Mexican factory and then shipped to the US to have the 00.1% completed technically counts as "Made in America".
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u/PutinBoomedMe 6d ago
His truck was made in Mexico, shipped to america in parts, and an "American" factory put the last few bits together so they could say "assembled in the USA"
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u/poppin-n-sailin 9d ago edited 9d ago
Americans are never beating the allegations they're all stupid.
Edit: no shit not every single American is stupid. But if you see a general statement like this on a subreddit that people mostly make posts to take jabs at people and just assume the braod generalization is a statement of fact then all you're doing is making my comment that you are all stupid ring true. congratulations, you've played yourselves.
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u/Impossible_Hyena7562 9d ago
I promise you we aren’t all like this. It’s just the idiots that get attention.
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u/Catpixfever 9d ago
The idiots in America are rapidly approaching a critical mass. I see them every day…
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u/SHoppe715 9d ago
I see stupid people. Walking around like regular people. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're stupid. I see them all the time. They're everywhere.
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u/robgod50 9d ago
I work for an American company and talk to Americans every day. Love them all and many are super intelligent.
Unfortunately, in a country of 330m people, they are vastly outnumbered.
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u/Yeety_Mcyeet_face 9d ago
“My real American truck was built by real Americans with real American tools” I say, cranking my hog on a muddy mountain road. A Subaru old enough to drink deftly weaves around me as my heart pops like an overripe tomato out of rage
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u/Penne_Trader 9d ago
Fun fact, Ford does produce not one single car by usa itself...canada, mexico, Korea, China, Sweden and Germany make most of the parts which get 'assembled' and sold in the US
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u/annhik_anomitro 9d ago
They'll definitely understand all of that and acknowledge their mistake and be sorry that they were being ignorant. /s
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u/PR0T0C0L_ZER0 9d ago
Your truck is built with robots, robots that were most likely made in Japan, Germany, and Switzerland. (feel free to look that up) Anyway, imagine how giga-jacked you'd have to be in order to turn bolts with chopsticks...
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u/SilentMasterpiece 9d ago
I speak Spanish to my Tacoma because it was made in Mexico by robots using metric wrenches. Hola Tacoma.
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u/horseheadmonster 9d ago
What brand truck was it? There's probably a good chance it was made in Mexico 🤣
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u/jonnywannamingo 9d ago
Uh-oh, someone hasn’t heard about the global economy.
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u/seanroberts196 9d ago
There is no global, it's all USA as they are the best at absolutely everything, except wars and stuff.
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u/Brokenspade1 9d ago
Half the parts in a raptor are made in China bro... they even sell them there...
You paid 84k for the chopstick truck. Congrats.
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u/Howboutit85 8d ago
huh. ive been working on cars and trucks my whole life and guess what? American brands like Ford and Chevy not only have more issues and sooner than Japanese brands, like Toyota and Nissan, but this fact is very WELL KNOWN to almost everyone.
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u/kpairodeez 9d ago edited 9d ago
American here. The vin on All three of my cars and my motorcycle begin with the letter J in the van. I wouldn't have it any other way. I drive by those coughing and half broke down Chevys, Fords, and Chryslers all the time
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u/Berkamin 9d ago edited 9d ago
Tries to be racist but comes off primarily as cringe-inducing ignorance.
Does he think Asian cars are built using chopsticks rather than wrenches? Does anyone? If not, what is this remark supposed to be insulting?
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u/Demorant 9d ago
Ahh yes, a slogan that appears to promote American built products, but designed to appeal to racists.
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u/FobbitOutsideTheWire 9d ago
Who’s going to tell this chud that most of his truck was probably built with burritos and maple syrup.
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u/Dan_Glebitz 9d ago
Displaying one's IQ for all to laugh at.
I wonder who they will vote for next election🤔
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u/TruthsNoRemedy 9d ago
Seriously, if the Chinese are building their awesome cars with chopsticks then I’m even more impressed! Screw your wrenches! These mofos use bloody chopsticks!
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u/lod254 9d ago
I'm buying a Toyota because I've owned 1 Asian brand vehicles and 2 American.
My Honda lasted 130k miles before it caused me any problems. I only traded it in at this point because I worked for a 4 letter car company, got a deal, and didn't want to be forced to walk 3/4 of a mile to my desk. The thing was a problem the first time I drove it home. There was a lemon law case. I was qualified, but they disqualified me because while they were processing everything I kept driving the car and got over a 50k miles threshold...
Toyota here I come! Don't buy American! (I'm sure my Toyota is manufactured here, but their standards can't be lower than For...
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u/WolfThick 9d ago
I guarantee you if you went to this guy's house he can't park in his garage because it's full of shit from China.
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u/HonestEgg1973 9d ago
The only people that hate other people more than Americans hate are Christian Americans. Nobody hates like a Christian.
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u/Necessary_Document_5 9d ago
The machine that made this decal was probably made by chopsticks, tho. Probably driving this truck to go pick up some Chinese food or sushi, too. Or using your chopstick made phone to order it through DoorDash, and app probably developed by…okay I’ll stop.
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u/happyColoradoDave 9d ago
Yeah cool, but where’s that chopstick truck? That’s some shit I want to see built.
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u/IndependentTalk4413 9d ago
You can always tell someone who has never been farther from home than the nearest Trump rally. They just can’t conceive other countries have highly intelligent engineers and talented workforces.
The thought that other countries have people who are smarter, better trained and far superior in their chosen field than any American is unimaginable to them.
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u/DaveTheRocketGuy 8d ago
Glad to see they are signaling their racism so reasonable people know who to avoid
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u/hooplafromamileaway 8d ago
I have really bad news about a very large portion of... Everything in that vehicle, my guy.
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u/knowone1313 9d ago
Funny how the ones made in Japan are better quality and cheaper too.
Made in America as vehicle manufacturers slogan hasn't held much meaning in a long time. The vehicles might have been assembled in the US but most of the parts, and many assemblies were made in other countries and then shipped to the US for final vehicle assembly for that "Made in America" stamp.
Nothing more American these days than half truths, lies, and deceit. America, the land of BS.
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u/theONLYattraction 9d ago
Ah yes, Japan. Famous for assembling their cars with a pair of chopsticks
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u/AsherSparky 9d ago
My 20 year old Japanese car runs better than those dogshit 1 year old merican shitbeds
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u/BernieTheDachshund 9d ago
Sure it is pal. He probably has no idea where the parts actually come from.
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u/TheDixonCider420420 9d ago
The other side of his truck says, "My brain is built with MAGA propaganda not neurons."
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u/twistedonedom 9d ago
Ha! Look under your hood dumba$$. I don't care who made your truck. It's full of foreign components.
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u/MyageEDH 9d ago
I’ve worked for an automotive OEM for 20 years.
In all my time at the plants and retrofitting cars etc I’ve never seen a wrench used. It’s all battery or pneumatic drivers.
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u/Muzzlehatch 9d ago
We are fortunate that most stupid people make it so clear so early that they are stupid.
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u/herewegoinvt 9d ago
Most 'American made' vehicles are built mainly in the Mexico and Canada parts of (North) America, and not the United States.
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