Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] a serious question
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Fri Sep 26 06:29:19 2008
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The Phaeton is still being manufactured. It sold well in Asia, but not in 
the USA.
Der Spiegel reported in April that VW will re-introduce the Phaeton to the 
US market for the 2010 model year.


> Jayanand,
> manufactured (past tense) - the Phaeton was the biggest flop VW ever had - 
> most of those they built are used by VW as VIP transport for VW events or 
> as fleet cars.
> Nobody wanted a limousine with a VW badge on the front.


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