We get in 2016 a new Volkswagen Phaeton
Posted on 05-06-2015 at 13:04 by ricardo – 28 Comments”
The legacy of Piëch is kept alive.
The luxury of a Rolls-Royce, the flexibility of a Bentley, combined with the packaging of a pumped up Passat. Rarely tried a big fine car so ‘just’ about to come as the current Phaeton. This was never the verkoopknaller where are the initiator of Ferdinand Piëch as hoped, but a new model should change that
That new model we get next year all to see, so leave a kuchend someone in a raincoat on the payroll of vw to Autoblog know, that the design of the Phaeton also has already seen. We were told that the Germans abandon the restrained design where the current along a given moment. The new Phaeton looks a lot more pronounced and recognizable. Read: the layman will not make him more confuse it with a Passat.
The next Volkswagen Phaeton is at the end of next year launched, preceded by a debut – perhaps in draft form – at the Beijing Auto Show, the ten-day auto show that beginning in april. Not surprising, since China is the main market will be for the Phaeton, along with the United States. In 2017 comes in the Netherlands on the market.
What we already knew about the new Phaeton
VW’s competitor to the 7 Series and S-Class comes on the modular MLB Evo-platform, that does duty in the Audi A8. In terms of engines, it is known that the W12 – since the facelift is no longer available – a comeback. Further, the achtcilinder of the party, who will also be in a 450 hp strong dieseluitvoering is to order. Who to image the environment can opt for the plug-in hybrid variant, where a petrol V6 combined with elektrokracht. Something that Volkswagen already to alluded with the concept C Coupe GTE.
The production will take place in the Glass Factory in Dresden, where the current Phaeton is currently still partly hand on a parquet floor in each other is put. Although the delivery of the Phaeton this week in Britain is stopped, the über-VW in the Netherlands available until the new comes. Not that he is here, or elsewhere in Europe, much is being sold, because the vast majority disappear to the market where the new Phaeton by 2017 must score: China.
Gallery: Volkswagen Phaeton 2010
”
“