r/Detroit • u/TatianaWinterbottom • Jan 10 '25

Picture How does a sign like this get enforced?

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u/halucination84 Jan 10 '25

This is standard at Big3 plants. They will tow your Kia if you park there. There is usually a lot for foreign cars, but you will be walking.

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u/silk_mitts_top_titts Jan 10 '25

I worked at a GM plant and some of the dumber security would regularly threaten to tow my 2003 Saab.

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u/Jeffbx Jan 10 '25

Kids...

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u/House_King Jan 12 '25

That’s the first thought I had for the GM ones. My 2002 9-5 might have been built and designed in Sweden, but it’s still gm. Gm even stole the gearbox from it.

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u/veggieviolinist2 Jan 10 '25

Ironically, their cars are less "American-made" than most Hondas. The Toyota corolla was the most American made car for some time. Now tesla dominates. I dont think Ford even has a vehicle on the top 10 list of American made vehicles these days

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u/will-read Jan 11 '25

Union made.

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u/NeverEnoughSunlight Jan 12 '25

...in Canada. Or Japan.

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u/mindroeder Jan 11 '25

Mustangs are made in Detroit, F-150 is made in Detroit and KCMO, F-250 through F-550 (maybe 650) are made in Kentucky. Transit vans sold in USA are also made in KCMO. The non usa parts are things like electronic modules and wiring harnesses, etc

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u/House_King Jan 12 '25

The only American car that is in the top 12 and isn’t Tesla is the jeep gladiator.

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u/EmpressBrandii Jan 13 '25

Rip gladiator. Being discontinued.

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u/will-read Jan 12 '25

I don’t think Ford even has a vehicle on the top 10 list of American made vehicles these days.

F series pickup has been number 1 for a long time.

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u/tangentrification Jan 10 '25

Do they pay everybody enough to buy one of their cars, though? 🤔 I drive a Honda because I got it for free, from my grandma, when she became unable to drive. I can't afford to buy a new car. Guess I won't be applying for jobs at any of those plants.

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u/manystripes Jan 11 '25

At the buildings I've worked at there's a second parking lot further from the building for other car brands. Basically if you drive the company brands you get to park close, otherwise you have to get extra exercise.

I didn't see it myself but I was told by some colleagues that one of the mid/high level managers once parked her mini cooper in the wrong lot and came back to find someone had slapped a "I work for Ford, I drive a Ford" bumper sticker on it.

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u/tsckenny Jan 11 '25

Every plant doesn't do this. I work at one of Ford's biggest plants and they don't do this at all. But there are other Ford plants that do.

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u/Bob_Loblaw16 Jan 12 '25

You're walking, but the foreign lot at the Flint truck and bus plant is far less congested when trying to leave at the end of the day.

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u/devo9er Jan 13 '25

Yup, can't park them in the front lots

Meanwhile the back lots are full of Japanese, German, and Korean cars that their engineers are using to benchmark and reverse engineer.