remember, the country name on the part is only the country of final assemble. individual components may and often are made in other countries.

Cummins is a prime example of this. The 5.9 and 6.7 final assemble point is their Columbus Midrange Engine Plant (CMEP) just south of Cummins’ world headquarters in Columbus, Ind.
The parts are made in Cummins plants around the world, India, China, S. America. Ford does the same thing with many of it's new engine designs coming out of it's EU design centers.

who can forget the Chinese scam of parts made in USA. they created and named a Chinese industrial city USA and their gov. owned businesses had fake addresses there.

the Jap cars that are supposedly American made by American labor in American plants is a marketing scam and joke.
all the complex engineering, all the major complex high dollar components such as engines, transmissions and much of the individual smaller components are made overseas, usually in the parent company in Japan.
The US plants are managed by Japanese citizens that are sent from Japan, the top plant engineers all come from Japan. All the major plant decisions are tightly controlled by top Japanese management back in Japan.
All that is US is low quality poorly or uneducated labor that will work for next to nothing, that's why we see those plants almost totally in the South.
The Koreans operate much the same way.


lots of faked counterfeit auto parts being sold here in America. the country name on a part or box means nothing anymore. even the big parts houses such as AZ and Carquest get duped in the search for the lowest price.

that "Motorcraft" you're putting in has a good chance of being a counterfeit.