My petrolhead soul is torn. The simple idea of Volkswagen making a successor to the Phaeton, a high end luxury car with a chunky price really saddens me. It will almost likely be a commercial flop, just like the first generation was. It is such a shame that this is likely to happen. If you
You may remember that about a couple of months ago VW presented us with a facelifted variant of their flagship, the 2011 Phaeton. At the time, it was a bit difficult to understand why the car didn’t get the eagerly awaited by fans major redesign and why the Germans only gave us these minute changes.
Bentley came along in 2003 and brought out the Continental GT, a car that would borrow the engine from a Volkswagen Phaeton and add a couple of turbochargers to it. This engine was so powerful that Bentley had trouble measuring the torque output. As time passed by this car went through a few versions each
