While where Canadian get their cars fixed is of primary importance for Canada’s automotive aftermarket, the focus for many consumers has turned toward where they are built.

Canada has, of course, had a burgeoning automotive manufacturing industry for more than a century, and cross-border cooperation with U.S. manufactuirng dates back to long before the Auto Pact arrived in 1965; Oshawa-based McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited worked closely with Buick and Chevrolet and became an important player in the creation of General Motors. (In fact it could be argued that the Auto Pact was really about enshrining in an agreemenent what was already occurring on the ground: an intertwining of supply chains.)

Today, Canada’s automotive assembly sector builds about 1.3 million vehicles a year. But Canadians buy about 1.9 million. And we send a lot of vehicles to the U.S., and bring a lot north, too.

We thought it would be interesting to dig into the data and present it in an easy to digest format. The bottom line on a lot of this is that Canadians buy about as many U.S. vehicles as we build for the U.S. market, wihch in the ongoing discussions of supply chain realignment means there could be pressure to patriate production, but to little or no net benefit to U.S. or Canadian production volumes.

In any case, check out the infographic below, orginally published in the February/March Indie Garage print edition.

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