In 2016 Volkswagen made a strategic change that drastically changed the output of the vehicle. The company’s business to the luxury market, VW Phaeton, was suspended after 14 years and the People’s car company decided to focus its resources on the developing electric vehicle market. Around the same time, Volkswagen launched a plan for their electric ID range at the Paris Motor Show. Over the past six years, the ID range has moved far beyond the prototype. You can now take electricity answers to golf, an SUV, and even a very green effort in Kemping VW.
The German car giant is quite ambitious about what you want to achieve at the EV market. Volkswagen is quite clear about his desire to expel Tesla from the EV throne, and almost achieved that goal last year. Elon Musk’s company sells a total of 936,174 electric cars, while VW is not far from that number with global sales of 757,994. Musk may have opened fire when he decided to open Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, only one hour from the Volkswagen headquarters. Unfortunately for Germany, Warren Buffet supports EV Byd producers may have just taken the EV World title. However, the news is more likely to spur Tesla and Volkswagen than to prevent it.
Volkswagen is familiar with luxury
Although it may be closely related to hatchbacks such as golf, or middle -class saloon like Passat, Volkswagen actually has a direct connection to some of the most expensive consumer cars on this planet. The company directly has a number of luxury brands, including Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche. The cars have overlaps with Audi in particular, with the passat mentioned above traditionally shares many parts and features with Audi A6.
But Phaeton is the official effort of Volkswagen to enter the luxury market under their own banner. The original Phaeton debuted in 2012, offering what Volkswagen explained as “luxury comfort, innovative driving system, and the final quality of the pioneer.” Like most luxury cars, large phaeton – measuring 16.6 feet long, 6.2 feet width, and as high as 4.7 feet. The original Phaeton interior is explained by VW as “cellular lounge.” The surface is clad in “chrome, wood veneer, and skin,” while the teeth shift compared to the “pushing lever on a motorcycle cruise ship.” Like a double glass, thick glass panels maintain unwanted road noise, while the optional Dynaudio sound system is pumped in high loyalty of the occupants of residents.
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In terms of performance, Phaeton debuted with a series of options. Two gasoline engines are available, V6 3.1 liters capable of producing 238 horsepower, and 414 horsepower, W12. Diesel Turbo 308-Tenaga Horse is also an option, for people who believe in the standard of Volkswagen emissions. The engine choices have changed for years, but the underlying quality remains. This vehicle also receives periodic design changes, when tastes change. Then during the impact of the emission scandal, Phaeton D2 was announced, promised to provide a luxurious line of futuristic overhaul.
What can be done by Phaeton D2
In 2015, a new view of Phaeton Announced – Phaeton D2. It is said to have a more “emotional” design than its predecessor, “pure electric drive with long-distance capability,” “more communication options,” and “semi-autonomy driver system.” It is assumed that a new luxury car will be on the market in 2017 or 2018, but not there at all.
Volkswagen said the only model that could be passed from Phaeton D2 was produced. This prototype is based on the design by the exterior head of VW Marco Pavone and its interior design head Tomasz Bachorski. The VW press office said the couple’s style was chosen because of “sporty and flat contour and high -quality interior.” This prototype is also based on the Volkswagen Modular Drivetrain Platform (MLB). The platform designed by Porsche develops standards for company longitudinal engines, front, and vehicle driving all wheels, which allows spare parts to be used alternately regardless of the car dimension. Adopting platforms reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Looking back, Bachorski seemed proud of his job and showed that although D2 never existed, it still left an inheritance. “The fact that Phaeton D2 first can be seen today in features -features such as The Curved Display, which is planned for the successor to Phaeton and launched in the market in 2018 at the Touareg Innovation cockpit,” Bachorski said.
Although the prototype seems to bring the original Phaeton forward to the future, and many of its features will appear on other VW cars, the full D2 release will not occur. After seeing the model that can be passed, the VW Supervisory Board decided not to continue Phaeton D2, and focus their efforts to “harmonize Volkswagen for electric mobility” instead.
