But there is no such integrated car “Made In” anywhere. Every vehicle that is or ever was has been made by dozens of different companies using materials from dozens of different countries.
On a car rolling out of a factory gate for, say, Sh2 million, what proportions of that money go to the rubber and cotton plantations and oil wells and iron mines where the raw materials originated, what proportion to the various secondary processors of rubber, fibres and textiles, plastics and steel; what proportion to the tertiary bunch who turned those processed materials into components, and what proportion to those who put all those bits together as a finished vehicle?
The popular presumption is that motor manufacturers are giant factories that receive raw materials, process them into components, and then assemble them into a vehicle.
But there is no such integrated car “Made In” anywhere. Every vehicle that is or ever was has been made by dozens of different companies using materials from dozens of different countries.
