Is Toyota really american now

Now recently I held a conversation with a close friend and he stated that he declared Toyota to be an American car company. Now if you no anything about me when I believe im right I will let you know that I am right. So I countered that Toyota is not American it is Japanese owned. Now he did counter with the fact that Toyota has many plants over here where they build their cars and that they employ a lot of Americans. Toyota really has a method behind taking over the North American auto market. They do believe localization, which is manufacturing where they sell. 

Now my argument was that the only reason Toyota produce in America is to avoid tariffs. Now I have spent some time researching this statement,  and I have not been able to find any info that supports my statement. I  understand that I don't have any support, but I will never say that Toyota is an American car company. Some would say " how is Chrysler consider American if it was sold to a foreign company?" I reply to that by saying, They were created here in Michigan. To be American you need to be created here, like a person, if you were born here no matter where you go you will always be American.

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Im going to leave you with this joke:

Yesterday I was at the local Wal-Mart. Now I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out, there he was - a damn Motorcycle cop writing a parking ticket ...

So, I went to him and said: "Come on Buddy, how about giving a guy a break?"

He simply ignored me and continued writing the ticket.

So, I called him a pencil necked Nazi. He then glared at me and started writing another ticket for having bald tires!

So, I called him a sorry excuse for a human being. He then finished the second ticket and put it on the car with the first. Then he started to write a third ticket!

This went on for about 25 minutes ... the more I abused and hurled insults at him, the more tickets he wrote ...
But hey, I didn't give a damn. My car was parked around the corner ...