Edited sentence: " he recalled."My friends at the Country Club would never let me live it down, spending $75K on a V-Dub.And so goes the fate of the Phaeton.Customers have been slow to accept a luxury Volkswagen, perhaps due to their historical perception of Volkswagen as being an "economy" marque.One VW salesperson in Chicagoland recalls a customer stating that though he loved the Phaetons character and handling, and felt it was by far the superior vehicle in the class, he wished it was an Audi.The British motoring journalist Jeremy Clarkson summed up the Phaeton's commercial failure by pondering "To what question is the answer a £68,000 Volkswagen