Forget the badge, I personally think the Phaeton is one of the most underrated cars currently on sale. Apparently Piech wanted to retire on a bang and set 10 different parameters for the Phaeton. They were so hard the some of the engineers said they'd be impossible to achieve and retired from the project.
One of them was that at 300km/h the bonnet or the wipers, can't remember exactly, had to have no vibrations at all.
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Weren't those things referred to the Veyron's project though? I think I read them related to the Bug.
Anyway, the Phaeton is indeed an excellent car, no doubts on that, but right because it's a +60.000 € VW (is it still on sale though?), I'd never consider it.
As an A8 I could have agree, but from a marketing point of view it's a nonsense.
It was an even worst choice than the Touareg s a VW rather than as an Audi (not only VW are supposed to be cheaper, but it would have also spared us the Q7).
It's probably an awesome second hand car, like the Thesis.
Regardless, too much sense in this thread now for Go America...
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Precisely being a Volkswagen is part of its appeal. It's not obvious, it's not a marketing gimmick, it's not a resurrected legend from the past which wasn't needed.
It's just a superbly engineered luxury cruiser. And if I was buying with the head that's what I'd have.
And by the way, I doubt the briefing about the Veyron contained anything more than "1000bhp, 400km/h". Those parameters were refered to the Phaeton, and I think it'd be very interesting to know them.
(And yes, the Phaeton is still on sale)
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Last edited by GO AMERICA!!!; 11-08-2009 at 04:40 PM.
have they actually sold those 8 cars? nope. so they have 5 out there, all in America i presume.
hell, there are photo's of more privately owned veyrons gathered together than the total sales of SSC's
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F*** 600.000 $ for an Aero?!
Let me say it again ****!!!
I thought it was one third of that!!!
dude, go hide yourself somewhere.
5 cars (and 8 orders, if that's true) in 6 years is embarrassing, there are much more than 220 Veyrons around the world after 4 years (not even considering the silly Gran Sport variant), about 80 Koenigeggs since 2000 and 110 or so Paganis since 1999, 160 Spykers in about 8 years and I guess that's it with rare exotics.
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Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
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