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

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Subject: [Leica] a serious question
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri Sep 26 06:41:38 2008
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That's new news to me Brian,

In 2004 they started reducing production of the Phaeton, then it was 
stopped (from your information I now gather only temporarily) in 2006. 
If the "Spiegel" wasn't such a drag to read through from beginning to 
end, I should have known. :-)

Cheers
Douglas

Brian Reid wrote:
> 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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