On Jun 20, 2:16 am, sjmmail2000-....RemoveThis@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> The VW Phaeton was the answer to a question no one asked: who wants to buy a $70k Volkswagen? Marketing mishegos aside, "Piech's folly" is a superb car: relatively quick, preposterously quiet and completely comfortable. Lest we forget, VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech is something of a master engineer. He was directly responsible for Porsche's 917; a race car so dominant they canceled the entire race series. Piech also willed the Bugatti Veyron into existence. The Touareg V10 TDI was born from the sa...
> Read More:http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2008-volkswagen-touareg-v10-tdi-review/
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I see. VW, the "People's Car" has created a very fast, very powerful
fuel guzzling SUV burning diesel at a "rated" use of 15mUSg (6.3km/l)
that costs nearly US$80,000.
If ever there was an example of corporate stupidity, this would be the
one. However fine the engineering might be, this is simply the wrong
message, and an utterly useless vehicle for any discernable real-world
use.
What _are_ they thinking?
Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
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