Volkswagen Phaeton News

After much indecision, Volkswagen has elected to replace the Phaeton, a senior marketer tells Motor Trend .

Nice, France - 2011 was a very good year for Volkswagen - sales worldwide were up 13.1 per cent , up 22.2 per cent in North America and up in Canada by 15.8 per cent .

Volkswagen's upcoming MQB vehicle architecture is going to underpin every new VW car-excluding the upcoming Phaeton, but including more than a few Audis-that arrives from this point forward.

Few experiences equal the feeling of driving a new 2012 Bentley Continental GTC down a crowded Los Angeles highway especially when the droptop is prismatic magenta with highly polished 21-inch wheels.

Volkswagen has always been known as "The People's Car." As in, affordable and ubiquitous.

HOW MUCH? $34,165 for the base Eos Komfort; $38,020 as tested for the Eos Lux, including wood trim, leather upholstery, keyless ignition and navigation system.

The Volkswagen sedan you see on the trailer above with its badges covered up is not a Jetta or a Passat.

As is the habit of propeller-heads worldwide and the Teu-tonic variety in particular, he's crunching numbers, CAD/CAMing prototypes and thermo- dynamicing so furiously that the Second Law as it pertains to entropy may have to be repealed.

The Transparent Factory in Dresden achieved a new production record in its anniversary year, with more than 11,000 Phaetons manufactured in 2011.