US-based Tesla fans are never short of excuses for smugness, but they were handed a peach this week with the latest edition of the Cars.com American-Made index.The study, which ranks vehicles’ American-ness on criteria such as assembly location, component origins and manufacturing workforce, placed all four Tesla models in the top 20, with the Model Y and Model 3 in the top two slots. Drowned by the whooping of Teslaholics, though, was Honda’s altogether cheekier colonisation (once you include the Acura brand) of an unbeatable seven of the top 20 places.
美国的特斯拉(Tesla)粉丝们从不缺乏洋洋自得的理由,但本周他们获得一个现成的额外理由:Cars.com的最新版美国制造指数(American-Made index)。