Talk:Volkswagen Phaeton

message: A blog is reporting that the Phaeton will not be making a return for 2007. . Also, VW doesn't list the car as an available model. Perhaps the article needs to be updated? (I would  do this, but I'm short for time right now sorry!) Raj Fra 02:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: End of the Road for Phaeton?

message: I love this car.  I also love my Phaeton.  My lease is up in Dec 06 and I can't find a comparable car:~(
I forgot that I posted this last year.  Turns out that I did find the perfect replacement, another Phaeton.  On November of 06 I had a new white Phaeton delivered from Chicago to California.  At that time there were only 13 new Phaetons left in the US.  The 06 is much nicer than my 04 because of the upgraded audio and seating etc.  
This is by far one of the best cars flying under the radar.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.130.20.245 (talk) 05:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I love the Phaeton, but VW also makes the Audi A8 which is even better. --Aizuku (talk) 12:00, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shame this car wasn't well received in the [[U.S.]]

message: I've often wondered what the point of this car was. Didn't anyone at VW point out that Audi make the A8? It's not even as if the Phaeton could have used A8 tooling as the Audi is aluminium. VAG already had a car in the 7-series/ S-Class Merc segment so why bother with the expense of another one? Or, why didn't VW just restyle an A8 and preserve most of the pressings (a la Golf/A3 etc)?
LewisR 18:03, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Internal Competition

message: I doubt the numbers:~( for the electronically limited maximum speed. How would you sell such an expensive car if it only makes a lousy 208 km/h (130 mph). That needs to be clarified.
** All VW products sold in North America are limited to 210 km/h (130 MPH) - the Phaeton is no exception.  I added a note to the body text of the main article mentioning the lower speed governor setting for NAR.  PanEuropean, Sept 2006
* I just checked the Volkswagen Website it states 250 kph (156 mph) for the V8 and W12 version. Even the budget Diesel engine accelerates this car to 230 kph.
This article is written from a UK standpoint.
It says "by way of the phaeton auto body style" -- The phaeton auto body style is a convertable, and this is not a convertable. So this statement is wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.23.40.194 (talk) 21:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Other crap

message: Moved Car and Driver statement to the US part.--VWphaetonfan 11:12, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  moved article to US section 

message: I highly doubt that its name comes from mythology, as a phaeton can mean:
   1.  A light, four-wheeled open carriage, usually drawn by a pair of horses.
   2. A touring car.
81.86.76.6 17:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: More specifically, a phaeton was a 1930's four-door car with convertible roof that did NOT have a solid bulkhead between the front and rear seats. As the solid roof designs gained popularity, the phaeton style faded from production, leaving the 'drop top' mainly to two seat roadsters. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 03:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Origin 

message: The article says 4.9L V10 diesel on the right pane, and then 5.0L at the bottom table. Whichever one is wrong should be fixed... Craigblock (talk) 16:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diesel engine size 

message: The article is well-written but highly under-sourced and essentially of a tone more fitting an advertisment than a reference article.  The big statements in the article, one after the other, are un-sourced. Anyone?  842U (talk) 01:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's quite acceptable to cite non-web sources in WP. See the  documentation for the details on how to do this. Letdorf (talk) 22:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Original work?

message: Something needs to be done about it as it deals entirely with the US.(86.31.187.246 (talk) 01:38, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales section 

message: Wouldn't be nice to add the exact type of car "v6, v8..."
"The far right Austrian politician Jörg Haider drove a Phaeton and famously crashed it and was killed on October 11th 2008." without the car version its boring, if we add he is far right I think we should also mention which version he drove.
N00bh4ck3r (talk)----  —Preceding undated comment was added at 20:11, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haiders accident car 

message: I added an external link at the bottom of the article to the English language Phaeton Owner forum that is hosted at the VW Vortex discussion forum.  Although VW Vortex is a commercial venture(there is advertising present at the top of forum pages), all of the content within the Phaeton forum is non-commercial, and all of the participants and moderators (of which I am one) are volunteers.  I added this same link a few years ago and it was deleted, perhaps because someone was concerned that VW Vortex is a commercial venture.  I think, though, that it is in the best interests of "knowledge dissemination" that this link to the Phaeton owner forum remain, simply because it is the single largest source of documented and substantiated factual information about this rather uncommon car.  For example, have a look at the Table of Contents (list of frequently asked questions) on the Phaeton owner forum - it is at this link: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1652232 and note the substantiation (by way of photos, scanned technical documents, etc.) of the factual information that is presented there. PanEuropean (talk) 06:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The WP guidelines on external links can be found at WP:EL. If you think your VW Vortex link complies, feel free to add it again. Letdorf (talk) 22:11, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Language Phaeton Owner Forum 

message: With regard to this series of edits, I would invite the IP editor to justify their actions.  And to be fair, let Mr Choppers have a say as well - I note from his editing history that he does shy away from edit summaries sometimes.
The page has become awash with images - far too many for the accompanying text and it looks excessively cluttered.  I also ask for clarification on their edit summary - I am not Mr Choppers, and I provided a valid edit summary for my actions.
As per discussion protocol - please leave the page in its current state while the discussion is carried out.  Further reversion may well be seen as both disruptive, and as hitting the 3RR wall.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 15:31, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, sorry, having spent something like sixty percent of my recent editing time on reverting the additions of this particular ip I have given up on adding editing summaries. They swap ip's with an alarming regularity and so after a few weeks I have simply stopped attempting to explain to them what is going on. See here for instance, where I have been reverting the same editor (from various IPs) numerous times. On five occasions I added a comment but it obviously has no effect and I am getting a little bit tired of having to behave better than people who obviously do not care at all. I believe that ip's should no longer be able to edit freely on wp, as the current stream of confused and vandalistic edits is stealing all of my available time on here, meaning that I now rarely add content but instead spend most of my time reverting ip nonsense. Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.  Mr.choppers | ✎  21:20, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I also did add a (perhaps rude, I admit to getting a bit tired of this editor) message at Pham's talk page, suggesting they read WP:CARPIX. They also edit as Myuser89 and as myriad ip addresses, with a steady habit of adding dozens of pictures, often chosen seemingly at random. See Maserati Ghibli for another example, where he was using  - I contacted him on that talk page as well and never got a response.  Mr.choppers | ✎  21:29, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits 

message: i work at a vw dealer and the VW CC replaced the Phaeton A8v (talk) 11:52, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The replacemt in north america is the VW CC