The motor and other driveline parts for the Spark EV are made in Baltimore, but the car is assembled in South Korea along with the gasoline version.
The cheapest new car available in the U.S. is the Korean-made Chevrolet Aveo.
Mr. Dodge added that he wants the car, which is made at a Nissan plant in Mexico, to grab 10% of the compact market "within two to three years, " up from the high single-digit percentages currently.
So next month, GM will shut down for a week the factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the sports car is made.
Mr. Gettelfinger is right that the union has made major concessions to the car companies in recent years, and that states did spend tax dollars -- though probably not as much as the union contends -- to attract Japanese, German and Korean auto makers to build factories.
Anand, whose favorite car is the Mahindra Bolero, has lately been spotted in a Rexton SUV, made by the Korean subsidiary and recently launched in India.
It feels a new small car aimed at the continental market stands a better chance of being driven in France if it is made there too.
TBM's founder, Anand Sharma, is convinced that the car industry will gradually move to a pattern where most of a car will be made in modules that are simply snapped together in small assembly lines close to the consumer, where details can be adapted to local tastes.
Adjustments are made for more or fewer bathrooms, more or less square footage, finished or unfinished basements, one car garage, two car garage, no garage, you get the picture, and in the end, a subjectively scientific determination is made as to whether a particular house is worth what the buyers are paying for it.
"It is important that consumers are asking questions about what checks have been made in advance and it is very helpful to get that information in writing before they purchase the car, " says Peter Lukacs, of the OFT.
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