History showed us that the US was not ready for overly expensive Cars with a VW badge on it. The Phaeton didn't do well and no one would have really taken VW's bid in the super car market as nothing more than folly. What you would have ended up with would have been a car with a cult following after the prices had fallen so low they were giving them away. As the title aptly puts it's the greatest car never made. This may have suffered the same fate as the Jaguar XJ 220 and be ten times better than that car ever was.
Other than the W engine configuration this car isn't related to the Veyron at all. The first Veyron concept was released three years before this car and was a totally different project. They ditched the Nardo project to concentrate on the...
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x100 cooler than a Veyron/Chiron
Replacements are never better than the originals.
And if they introduce it in the US, the EPA will claim it's cheating on emissions.
History showed us that the US was not ready for overly expensive Cars with a VW badge on it. The Phaeton didn't do well and no one would have really taken VW's bid in the super car market as nothing more than folly. What you would have ended up with would have been a car with a cult following after the prices had fallen so low they were giving them away. As the title aptly puts it's the greatest car never made. This may have suffered the same fate as the Jaguar XJ 220 and be ten times better than that car ever was.
Nice car, but I don't understand why vw always use the W engine platform on this and the bugattis?
Packaging.
I dont understand why americans constantly cram their cars with big sluggish v8's with less power per litre than a 2.0 4 banger.
And it became the Veyron...
Other than the W engine configuration this car isn't related to the Veyron at all. The first Veyron concept was released three years before this car and was a totally different project. They ditched the Nardo project to concentrate on the...
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