2004 Volkswagen Phaeton V8 Sedan 4-door 4.2l on 2040-cars
Willowbrook, Illinois, United States
A truly finely engineered car that is a rare find. This car has a cult following and will not disappoint you: the old girl can really fly. It has been maintained very well so that even after 9 years it is difficult to find any difference in handling between this car and my brand new BMW 7 series (only feels less tight). I have to let it go since I have only a two car garage and it will be criminal to put this car outside given that there will be someone out there who will appreciate the engineering and care for it much better than me going forward.
The car has been dealer maintained throughout its life and included is a VAGCOM dongle and software that will allow you to access the cars 36+ computers from your laptop to see whats going on. This also elevates the ownership experience IMHO. For those of you who would like to know more about this car and the community around it please visit VWVortex.com and the Phaeton subgroup. Wikipedia also has a lot of good information especially the design principles and the fact that it is built on the Bentley Continental D1 platform. I also have a ton of technical documentation which I will give you on CD including the factory manual from Bentley publishers.I will throw in an oil & filter change before delivery. All fluids have been changed recently making this car silky smooth. New tires, new battery, new HID Xenons new TPMS batteries and an air conditioner recharge done this summer. Everything works as designed except the navigation which is now very dated (CD based maps) and I use an after market system that has real-time traffic input and lifetime map updates which I recommend as the better option. The stereo has an outstanding sound and its four zone climate control works well including four seat heating and cooling. it has an awesome internal lighting which glows at night which I have tried to capture in the pictures. The actual effect is much better than the pictures tell. The car is built like a tank. |
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Happy 60th to the VW Karmann Ghia
Tue, 20 Aug 2013Volkswagen's product portfolio may be as extensive these days as any other carmaker in the business. But if you still think of the original Beetle as synonymous with the brand, that's probably because a) you're old and b) the Beetle was the company's only product until the mid-50s.
Sixty years ago Wilhelm Karmann (founder of the eponymous coachbuilder) was in Paris for the auto salon and met up with Luigi Segre and his team from Carrozzeria Ghia who showed him what was essentially a "Beetle in a sports coat." A month later they showed it to Volkswagen chief Heinrich Nordhoff who, setting aside his conservative tastes, approved it for production. And so the Volkswagen Karmann Ghia was born, giving the German marque a second product line. It still used Beetle mechanicals and was built at the same Karmann factory in Onsabrück that was already assembling the Beetle Cabriolet.
It took another couple of years to put the design into production, but from 1955 to 1974, Volkswagen and Karmann built 362,601 coupes and 80,881 of the subsequent convertible that arrived in 1957. Today the Onsabrück factory is part of the VW Group, handling production of the Golf Cabriolet, XL1 and Porsche Boxster and Cayman, and with that original Karmann Ghia prototype as part of its factory collection.
Volkswagen reveals Beetle GSR, R-Line convertible and two special GTIs
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The first, and splashiest of the Chicago goodies on the VW stand has got to be the 2014 Volkswagen Beetle GSR. Don't lose your temper, Acura Integra geeks; in this case, GSR stands for "Gelb Schwarzer Renner" or "Yellow Black Racer," and harkens back to a sport-tuned classic Beetle from the 1970s. For the 2014 iteration, the GSR gets a 210-horsepower version of VW's 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder. That engine is enough to push the Beetle to 60 miles per hour in 6.6 seconds, and up to a top speed of 130 mph.
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That guy has to take precautions to enjoy his proclivities, and as this new ad for the Volkswagen Beetle Convertible shows, not everyone understands. Have a watch below, and note that there's just one woman in the minute-long spot, and she's nowhere near the car. Seriously, why didn't VW run this commercial during the Super Bowl?