My Car has broken or is broken

[Tedwonny]

I was wondering if both are correct:
My car has broken.
My car is broken.
The latter sounds more correct to me.
I know break is different from break down and both fits the context but I'm only allowed to use 'break'.

Thanks a lot

 

[Rover_KE]

Who is only allowing you to use 'break?'

I can't think of a context where either 'My car is/has broken' would be correct.

EDIT: Piscean just thought of one.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I found the following definitions, which seem to fit the OP's sentences.

'break ..verb
2 to stop working as a result of being damaged' ── quoted from http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/break_1?q=break

'broken ..adjective
1 no longer whole or working correctly' ── quoted from http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/broken?q=broken

 

[GoesStation]

Write My car has broken down​.

 

[probus]

Natural

My car has broken down.
My car is broken down.
My car broke down.

Commonly heard but ungrammatical

My car is broke down.