"Or to make it simple, tell him you don't have an American car, you have a European car. The Contour was not, nor was it ever meant to be, an American car. It was a failed attempt at a "world car" because it was too much of a European car for American tastes."
It was built in the US by a US company, so it's an American version of the CDW27 World car.
Anyway, tell your "buddy" to MYOB and he doesn't know a thing about cars.
