Yeah its a shame that there are alot of decent cars built in europe that will never reach our shores. Its funny cause like you said about the GM you drove. While they built a nice car like that, here in the states they wasted millions of dollars designing a economical Hummer (H3) which still only gets 17MPG....and still doesn't compare the original...(I still like the original military humvee)
At least the Contour did make it over from across the pond!