Cars.com has released its 2023 American-Made Index, ranking cars by how American they are, whether or not it's an American brand.
If you want to buy the most American-made cars, trucks or SUVs, you might want to look further west than the Motor City. According to, only one American brand made it into the top 10 of its 2023 American-Made Index, and it ain’t from, GM or Stellantis.
The newly released list puts Tesla at the top of the pack, followed by German and Japanese brands.’s standards, it’s a mixture of five ingredients: country of origin for available transmissions and engines, U.S. manufacturing workforce, final assembly location and percentage of U.S. and Canadian parts. Their rules, not ours. But with that in mind, the top 10 American-made cars for 2023 are as follows, with"cars" being used as a generic term of light-passenger vehicles, including trucks, SUVs and literal cars:You'll also notice that the most American-made truck is the Honda Ridgeline. Oh sweet irony. Not shown there is the most American-made full-size truck is the’s analysis. GM represents more vehicles on the American-Made Index than any other automaker, making up 18%. Broken down by individual brands, Toyota has the most, at 11% of the Index. Michigan builds more vehicles on the list than any other state, though none of the top 20 on the Index are assembled in the Mitten. 59% of vehicles on the list are SUVs, up from 52% in 2022 and 43% in 2021. Hybrids represent 12%, while 8% are battery-electric and only 2% plug-in hybrids.
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