I forget to show name, but they’re used to be this advertisement quick show on cars on Comcast used to just show the car the price, speed all that with little clips kinda like in here I forgot the name
The Phaeton stands in a class of one for its extraordinary blandness. Its brilliantly uninspiring and is probably more interesting today than it ever was in the early 2000s.
@@LG633TV The fuel range is ridiculous in the W12. That's why I didn't buy one. I make long roadtrips with it. And making 450km max with a 90l fuel tank is not acceptable.
@@alexsam2630 That's why I waited for years. I wanted to have a really clean one, well maintained. It's only been 15 months, but not cost from the beginning, apart from the usual stuff. Oil, liquids, fuel, and so on. Having a former chief mechanic at VW by the time this was made as a friend is quite helpfull tho, I have to admit.
This is when Volkswagen AG was top tier automotive engineering! Ferdinand Piech may have been awful, but his leadership made cars that were worthy of conversation. What an era. It will be missed. 😢
@@Vinline1995 awful is kinda a bit of exaggeration perhaps(?) but no doubt he's a really harsh leader who only wants the best of the best, and if you happen to work for him back then, you would know that he's sort of a tyrant in his requests. If you say you can't meet his requirements on making a car he wants, you're out. And the requirements are sometimes insane for the time. Thats exactly how the VW Phaeton happened, aswell as many other cars that pushes the limits during his era.
Y'know, the original design had a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-bovoid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters
I have to agree, this was the peak of cars. TDI engines were indestructible and were nearly in hybrid territory in terms of fuel efficiency. Audi's cars were indestructible. Volkswagen and Škoda... well the interiors were rubbish but they still had indestructible mechanicals. Now the best budget cars in history. Overly strict diesel emission controls and late stage capitalism have ruined everything.
@@fortetuono4068 80, 100, 200, A3, A4, A6, all of them. They took the Volkswagen mechanicals and put them in a car of immense quality, basically fixing all that is wrong with 90s and 2000s Volkswagens. They keep a high value after 20 years for good reason.
@Edgar_Deltoro911 the factory in Dresden was originally designed for the Phaeton. They moved the Bentley production there later with much protests from Bentley owners
I love these DVD's from the 2000s. The cars had SO many features and buttons and neat things you could do with them. Seems like every single milimeter was thought out. Different use cases depending on what the occasion was. So many things to discover.
Lowkey one of the best car ever made. Peak german engineering, basically unsinkable, kinda fast, comfortable as a Bentley for the price of a quarter of a Bentley
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the 2004 VW Phaeton is better than the cybertruck in many ways (Especially in finger cutting prevention). I very much would rather ride and drive around in a Phaeton. such a beautiful car that still has features many cars (Even expensive ones) nowadays don't have! it still is the most extraordinary Volkswagen ever produced
I will always love the Phaeton, when it works it's the single greatest piece of machinery to come out of Europe. I ran mine for 120 000km without even changing the oil and that fucker kept going, the thing that killed it was the water pump breaking and overheating it to the point of melting the head gasket. I miss you Phaeton, i will get another one some day.
Im actually thinking of getting this as a first car when I turn 18, I'm currently 15 and I love this car,ik it has some problems like the air suspension ect,but man I would do anything to have one of these fully equipped with all the options and mint, I hope I find one
@@dw4525 Haha I love it,I don't really care about speed or even looks,tho the Phaeton looks gorgeous imo,I want a nice and comfortable car,I've heard this one even has pretty decent economy for the size and how heavy it is
19:56 Yeah, that was a very difficult process. You first had to enter a city. And because that isn't a touchscreen, it only has the buttons and the dial, you have to go letter by letter using the little dial to enter each individual letter to enter the city name where you wanted directions to go, so just entering a city took like a minute or two. Then you had to enter the street name where you wanted to go, which was even more difficult because there were more street names, and so again letter by letter, each individual letter, one by one, selecting from them, to choose what city and what street name. And from there you could also enter the street number, but by then you had spent like 3-4 minutes just trying to enter the country, city, and street where you were going, and so you were already kind of getting fed up with the whole thing.
It is quite interesting to discover the many details different from European market Phaetons to North American ones. One such example would be the missing different "wing" front grille that only long wheel base Phaetons had that seem to be missing on the lwb model shown here.
@@TerrasClip there were actually a few differences in the 3 years we got in NAR. The taillights were different on the 2004 models and some infotainment buttons changed early in 2004. I drove a launch edition early production 2004 Phaeton that had a “telephone” button where Map was on later US cars.
I noticed I've had a few subscribers since I posted the DVD video. They will soon find out that my channel is not car centric at all. I'm not a RU-vidr which I try to explain here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pd5XhXOnYSQ.htmlsi=QcB241RahCa_oPoO
@kristoforban7039 it was my favorite car I ever owned, but when my lease was up I didn't want to buy it out because I knew that VW couldn't support it over the long term
People didn’t like this car back then, because they found it too expensive and overly complicated!! Fast forward 20 years later, now cars are expensive and overly complicated!
Volkswagen was always the "indestructible shitbox brand", then they make a high quality and luxurious limousine with a trillion parts to break, which was always Audi's spot on the market. So it's an Audi, but without any of the branding to appeal to the typical snob. To be fair, I do thoroughly enjoy an Audi, especially when it grows too old for a snob and he sells it for cheap.
@@masterkamen371 Heavily disagree, audi handling is much more comfortable, a8 was faster, lighter by huge amount because of aluminum premium body, used higher quality wood and had much more leather conpared to plastic phaeton. Additionally the acceleration and fuel economy was much worse in phaeton
If ive got $30k to spend on my next car, im finding a V10 TDI one. The car will only cost $12k probably. But the rest will be necessary for obvious reasons
Which is weird because in 2002/3 the S class was a dated, vehicle built to inferior standards. Brand snobs truly do know how to shoot themselves in the foot
That was what kept them from selling lol. What rich guy wants to drive something that looks like a stretched Passat when a Mercedes, Bentley, Porsche, etc stand out much better?
@WarHammer1911A1 yes, 20 years ago and again 17 years ago. I turned both in when the leases were up. So none now. I just found my original DVD and converted it to a RU-vid video.
'keyless access prevents locking yourself out of the car, if you don't have the key you can't lock the doors' Cool, but i already don't understand how people lock themselves out of their car without the keys. How does it even happen, makes no sense to me.
Not to take anything away from the Phaeton but he makes a big deal about the keys and how they are like nothing you've ever seen before... My old 2002 W211 had all the same features plus infrared as a secondary communication to ensure that the trunk and windows don't get rolled down accidentally with a long key press in one's pocket.
Since I got my copy 20 years ago, I doubt that one is available anymore as it came with my car. That's why I put it on RU-vid. I thought about selling all my Phaeton stuff like this DVD, my edition of Autoweek where they review the Phaeton and my brochures, window sticker etc. but wouldn't know what to ask for them
