Re: Mercedes still may profit from Chrysler

You're slightly confused. The 74% domestic number means US - Canada - Mexico. The 26% foreign content is stuff that is made from outside North America, so there is PLENTY of stuff that can come from Germany.

Domestic content does not include Mexican parts, only the US and Canada.......I know it doesn't make any sense, but that is the rule.

Ed

Yeah, but look at a pre-Diamler LH car. They were only running 80% or so domestic, because they had things like Nippondenso alternators and AC compressors (or Bosch alternators and Malaysia-built Sanden compressors in some models), Mitsubishi or Nippondenso starter motors, etc. etc. etc. You even have to count wheelbearings, power window motors, power seat motors, electronics boards, door-lock solenoids etc. etc. which can all be made in Taiwan or Malaysia, too, so there's lots of room for non-German but non-Domestic parts too.

And I posted showing that ALL LX transmissions are made in Kokomo.

Hey, did you ever find which Mercedes use that 6-speed auto yet?

And I've posted window sheets showing some 300's have transmissions made in Germany.

I'll give you that. Mercedes does not have a 6-speed transmission.

What do they say on the Chrysler 300 web-based message boards about transmissions and where they're made for a given model or engine option?

Well, 1. And I posted that even the 300s made in Austria use transmissions made in Kokomo.

Most of the posters here are saying that their transmissions are made in Germany:

Some claim to have "made in germany" tags on suspension parts, and that cruise control comes straight from Merc parts bin.

And until I read otherwise I'm going to assume that Daimler is getting a cut for anything being made that has some Daimler / Mercedes IP (intellectual property) content even if it's being made in a North American or Asian parts plant. That includes some "Mercedes-inspired" transmissions made in Kokomo.

Oh-I didn't know that Canada and Mexico were considered domestic. That makes sense. Ironically I was thinking of putting in a joke about how Canadian parts should be considered domestic since the U.S. annexed them. I thought it was bad when my father-in-law bought a 99 civic, and was told by the dealer that at the time it had the highest domestic parts content of any car sold in the U.S. I wonder if the regulations have changed since then, or if a whole lot of the honda is made here.