Volkswagen Phaeton
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what went so horribly wrong?
The badge
VW is supposed to be a car maker every average Joe can afford to have one, sticking a VW on a Bentley, Rolls Royce or whatever they own is really stupid.
>Curb weight 2,449 kg (5,399 lb) (LWB W12)
>>14846864
>>14846870
this
If they named it Audi A8 it would have sold like hotcakes.
>>14846896
So they threw the engine into the A8 as well.
>>14846876
What do you call something that is above "pigfat"? Landyacht?
>>14846876
how can that car even weight so much??
>>14846924
Your mom rides in the front.
>>14846876
lel, new land cruiser 200 weights almost the same and has steel frame
>>14846860
Prestige.
People who want a luxury saloon car won't buy a fucking Volkswagen, they'll buy a Mercedes or BMW.
nobody in that price range wants a subtle car or a sleeper, they want an expensive badge
the car itself is absolutely excellent, really well built and very luxurious, it just looks like a passaat
>>14846930
whoops, Toyota has 200kg more but still
>>14846924
W12 engine
VW tried to move them selves upscale. While at the same time they moved all the production to Eastern Europe and Latin America.
>>14846942
> they moved all the production to Eastern Europe and Latin America.
yeah and SO?! what are you implying
maybe you should return back to /pol/
>>14846914
Landbarge.
>>14846979
That afterwards they started having *big* quality control issues, culminating in the disaster that was the VW Fox.
>sold 1400 in the US one year
>sold 500 the next
what an absolute failure
>>14846979
>Move factories from Germany with culture of extreme work
>To Poland (culture of drunks) and Mexico (culture of laziness)
>QA goes down the drain, build quality goes down the drain
>UR RASSISSSS
>Please support 4chan by disabling your ad blocker on *.4chan.org/*,
Nah, faggot moot
>>14847025
>moot
>>14847027
still a giant faggot.
>>14847017
It's all done by robots, it's just qc that suffers.
>>14847034
Robots now maintained by dunks and mexicans
>1/1000th of an mm is too hard esse, 1/10th is enough
>>14847034
mexican robots
It's hard to think of a car less suited to VW's image; even in Germany VW is a no-frills people's car, for the most part. A schoolmate of miner's dad drove one, and people percieved it as a fancy Passat.
If they had too much pride to put a Bentley badge on it, they should have made up a premium brand like Toyota/Lexus, Nissan/Infiniti do in the US and Europe.
I'd love to see one sold under "Auto Union"
New Phaeton soon.
>>14847017
>Extreme work
>Germany
Really, now. I thought that before I moved here.
