[blau911]

Sebastian,
I don't want to kick you when you are down, but it seems that either your great trust in human honesty, cheapness or laziness has led you into paying a lot of money to buy a car you have never seen from a person you have never met. From what I also can gather, your situation is more dire as you have no title and no bill of sale from the seller.
Instead of trying to use a telephone to get what you are owed, you should jump on the next available flight and fly over yourself in person, have either the police, the FBI or a private detective accompany you and knock on the guy's door to demand the car or your money back. I would suggest a detective be involved so you know which door to knock on. And a police officer so that you can file a report immediately and get a lawsuit going if necessary.

Posting messages on this board, and hoping for people here to volunteer their help to make this guy give you your car is just wishful thinking at this point. In the end, you should realize that you need to fight your own battles and own up to your own mistake by not protecting yourself from getting screwed.

As John Se is subtley trying to say, you need to take matters into your own hands ASAP and put serious direct pressure on this guy. If everything you have stated about your transaction with this guy is true, trying to call this guy over the phone and threaten him, convince, or befriend him into giving you your car or money back is a waste of time. At this point you should have already concluded that this guy has screwed you. Don't you think that if he was an honest guy he would have tried to get in touch with you? No honest person receives a $21000 wire transfer and doesn't make some effort to contact the person who sent the money and let them know what is going on with the car.

The reality is that it's a lot easier for people to screw someone who is so far away. It's like bombing a city from a plane. It's a game of target practice for pilots until the are forced to see the dead bodies and destroyed houses on the ground. Sending a wire transfer from Europe over to his bank account makes it real easy for a person to make the decision to do the wrong thing. You really need to get on the next flight over to the USA and make this person see whose money he has stolen so he understands it is not a victimless crime. Bring pictures of your kids and wife too if you have a family so he can who else he is stealing from. $21000 can cover a lot of medical bills and is a good nest egg for a college education.