source: Cars.com

It’s hard today to determine whether or not your car is actually American made. In fact, Toyota, a Japanese car company, holds the number 2 spot for the most “Made in America” vehicle right now with their popular Camry. So many parts for vehicles that are built in America are still coming from a variety of other countries. If the automobile is assembled with foreign parts, that means that overall, it takes fewer Americans to build them. Unfortunately, some domestic content ratings are either unpublished or lump more countries into the “domestic” pool, such as Mexico.

If you want to get the highest quality, made in America vehicle for your money you can turn to Cars.com’s 2014 American-Made Index. This is a fantastic tool for showing you where a specific make/model of a vehicle is assembled in the U.S. as well as only showcasing vehicles that have a domestic-parts content rating of 75 percent or higher. Some highlights from the 2014 list include the addition of the Honda Ridgeline and Crosstour, the Chevrolet Corvette, and the Dodge SRT Viper. Strong sales and representation from consumers who prefer American Made has helped manufacturers realize that we are more involved and knowledgeable about how to buy U.S. products. Those same manufacturers have, in turn, given us what we want and are now sourcing more of their parts from the U.S. as well as assembling the vehicles stateside.

You can also use builthere.us for a further breakdown of the percentage of American made parts on the top twenty bestselling vehicles in America. ABC News also has a calculator where you can enter any make/model car and receive a basic percentage rating of how much of the car was Made in America, as well as a list of the most and least American made cars as of 2010 and 2011. Buying just 5% more American Made products can make over 1 million new jobs in our country, so imagine what a vehicle purchase could do.