Autoblog and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article.There's a version of America where the FordF-150 is the most American vehicle you can buy. Most Americans believe it. About 71 percent of people surveyed by Cars.com picked it as their answer when asked which vehicle is built in the US. It's a reasonable guess. It's also wrong, or at least, incomplete. Cars.com's American-Made Index has been exposing this particular blind spot for 21 years now, ranking vehicles on where they're assembled, where their parts come from, where the engines and transmissions are sourced, and how many Americans each automaker actually employs relative to what it builds. The results, as always, are a little uncomfortable.Kelly ToyotaView the 1 images of this gallery on the original articleToyota and Honda Are Out-Americaning DetroitOf the 86 vehicles that made this year's index, around 65 percent belong to foreign-brand automakers. The Detroit Three hold about a third between them. Toyota tops the whole field with 14 qualifying models. Honda comes in at 13. GM and Ford follow, in that order. Essentially, the company that pioneered the assembly line, which basically invented the American auto industry, comes fourth. Meanwhile, Honda's plant in Alabama has put more vehicles in the AMI top 10 than any other factory in the country across the award's history. Decades of investment in American workers and American soil, building cars that happen to have a Japanese name on the hood.HondaThe Top 10 Is a Study in SurprisesTesla's Model 3 took the top spot for the sixth straight year, with the Model Y in second. Jeep earned third and fourth with the Gladiator and Grand Cherokee, the latter rocketing up 66 places on the strength of a dramatic jump in domestic parts content. Then Honda filled out the rest of the top ten almost entirely on its own. Ridgeline, Odyssey, Accord, Passport, Acura MDX.TeslaView the 3 images of this gallery on the original articleAdvertisementAdvertisementThe story here isn't really about any single brand winning or losing. It's that the definition of an American car stopped being about the badge a very long time ago, and the 2026 index is just the annual reminder that most of us still haven't caught up.This story was originally published by Autoblog on Jun 25, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Autoblog as a Preferred Source by clicking here.