Volkswagen Phaeton

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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

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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

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>>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.