A luxury V10 barge for under £10,000. Who's feeling brave?
While the Touareg V10 is brave enough to streak at the winter Olympics, the Phaeton will always be the realer deal. This was the car born from Piech’s personal obsessions and desire to one-up rivals. Offended by Merc’s move into what he saw as Volkswagen territory with the first A-Class, Ferdinand decided to dispatch a tank to park on Daimler’s lawn.
There was one obvious issue with the range-topping W12 engine: Europe’s rapid move towards compression ignition. These days Rudolf Diesel is more likely to be burned in effigy than celebrated, but at the turn of the century DERV really did seem to be the fuel of the future, and Volkswagen executives predicted that the profligate 12-cylinder would be a bar to sales in Euro-land.
Nor was the V10 a scintillating dynamic experience. Piech’s definition of luxury was all about being calm, fast and unflustered – all characteristics it did very well. The big diesel gave effortless ground-up thrust and never turned loud or coarse, even when pushed. Supple suspension pillowed and parried bumps and dips as appropriate, and if owners did want to travel along a searing desert highway at V.max the climate control would doubtless have kept them nicely chilled.
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