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Mazda was owned by Ford, but the only thing Ford did was make trucks with Ford motors in them. They were still engineered by a Japanese company.
Acura is a Honda brand. Have you ever noticed the old Integras riding around with flipped over Acura emblems. It's supposed to symbolize that the brand is really a Honda marque.
I swear that Infiniti is a brand that wants to look like Porsche with with more Japanese influence. It is the luxury branch of Nissan and therefore an import.
Scion and Lexus are both owned by Toyota. Like all of the other names listed, their money goes back to Japan for R&D, investment, and JDM taxes.
The moral of the story is that something may say "Made in America" on it, but the lettering is Japanese, and the money isn't dollars. Somewhere inside every import building, they have imported leadership who bears pride in their own flag, speaks English as a second language, and either secretly or publicly wishes they were "home." If home for them isn't America, then they aren't American, and the same is true of the brands that have come from overseas.
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