2006 Volkswagen Phaeton V8 Road Test
As I write, the Volkswagen Phaeton is fading away. It's beginning to vanish, into thin air, though you'd be hard pressed to notice, since there are less than one hundred fifty of these cars spread across Canada. When it was launched just three years ago, it stirred up quite a fuss; after all, the Phaeton was the Volkswagen that would fundamentally change the way the world would perceive Germany's meat and potatoes brand. But in this perfectly calculated experiment of boardroom management origin, something went amiss, and now Volkswagen is quietly pushing it aside, like week-old paperwork.