Cheaper to make a car in South Korea or Georgia?

[M-technik-3]

So Kia Is making the new Sorrento in Georgia, it used to be we exported our cheap cars to be manufactured by workers in Korea now it's the other way around. Sign that US of A become just a consumer vs a global manufacturer powerhouse.

Sad state.

[JasonC]

Wonder what the pay rate is there?

[e34john]

Isn't it because noone else wants to buy an SUV, same thing with BMW and Mercedes with plants in the South.

[M-technik-3]

No X3 and X5's with diesel's sell well in UK and the rest of Europe.

[svn2002s]

It's just to avoid the backlash that is coming from the American Consumer. we live by free trade but nobody wants to buy our shit. Everybody wants to sell here only. But now, the trade deficit is finally unsustainable. They kill the hen that lay the golden eggs.

[Nic01101011]

They kill the hen that lay the golden eggs.

this is a wonderful saying

[tjts1]

So Kia Is making the new Sorrento in Georgia, it used to be we exported our cheap cars to be manufactured by workers in Korea now it's the other way around. Sign that US of A become just a consumer vs a global manufacturer powerhouse.

Sad state.

wHAT?

[rwh11385]

Actually, with high energy prices and concern, multi-domestic production makes a lot of sense. Build the cars where the demand is, versus where labor is cheap.

Plus, with more robots, labor is a smaller portion of the cost and more technical support is needed, so a place with more skilled labor is good.

[napabavarian]

We sent production overseas to fire all the employees before they can collect retirement!

[Aptyp]

almost all US-sold cars are built in US today... As Ford and Chevy moved to Mexico and Canada respectively, Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Mazda, BMW, Mercedes, Hyundai, Kia, began to build cars here...


Getting the fuck out of liberal states and moving south...

[Nygdup]

Let's not forget the role the labor unions played in making overseas manufacturing appealing to Ford and GM.

[///e30freak]

Let's not forget the role the labor unions played in making overseas manufacturing appealing to Ford and GM.

Let's also not forget the role labor unions played in creating the middle class, or the shite cars Ford and GM have been peddling for decades, or the philosophically different corporate attitude foriegn car makers have. Lots to remember.

[napabavarian]

Let's also not forget the role labor unions played in creating the middle class, or the shite cars Ford and GM have been peddling for decades, or the philosophically different corporate attitude foriegn car makers have. Lots to remember.

They did their jobs...then they did so much they killed the jobs they created.