Volkswagen Phaeton W12 (Team Review) - Fifth Gear

today the team tested the facelifted Volkswagen Phaeton w12 this revised version of VW is most expensive most luxurious car costs 82,000 pounds and promises to be one of the most advanced on thoroughly engineered cars on the road it looks just the same as when it first came out eight years ago Philly is slightly different come on dude it's got there's got the new corporate grille well this is the facelift is just the grille yeah pretty much it does look a B you know we'd be like a big percent however there is some lovely tech in the boot look lovely bits of engineering tips have another little moment today with the boot tinge look why of course the others did depreciate it's just a hinge listen it's a piece of scientific art are you happy with interior design up front they're so fun well there's an awful lot rot in there look at these it's just like a helipad for a very small model helicopter no you push it down and it's actually a cup holder but oh what time would you need it to be like that I ask you're spending a lot of money on a big car that's supposed to be super luxurious and I think that brands like BMW and Mercedes and Audi do it a lot better let me wheel out a fact odds fargood have designed this so that at 186 miles per hour if it's 50 degrees centigrade outside it will maintain a constant steady 22 degrees centigrade inside with the aircon what we should learn from that is volts are going to spent a lot of time doing slightly irrelevant thing in this car we don't want to go 186 with the ACO but we want this to look better what we wanted to test was it sort of its grace its silence and it's the way in which it can display its technological gizmos we couldn't think of a better way of doing it then taking it round the bowl at a hundred miles an hour sticking cruise control on and taking our hands and feet away from it and phoning people with its voice recognition system come on Johnny I've set the cruise yeah it's on I'm going to take my hand off the steering wheel just see what happens although it feels a bit wrong it is it's maintaining this maintain can't wait to hear your ringtone Tiff's uncle drifter his uncle drifter that's it it's very kind of you to call are you comfortable I am really comfortable hi thanks for calling thanks for calling Jonny Jason potato number four Jason potato he talks too much I'll turn him off Victoria Butler - Henderson No - Anderson got it darling you've got it that's it this is ad warning that Johnny's on the phone so that I need to put aside two hours okay there's something I've always wanted to tell you what it's got 444 horsepower this has the quality of the call was superb I could hear every single word even on the phone you're boring me you don't mean it really you just tease him despite a hands-free system that eventually recognizes even confusing names the revised VW Phaeton feels out of date it's just a middle-aged old horse and Thornton 5 the Phaeton w12 gets a fading 5 not very good form which gives the Volkswagen Phaeton a team test score of just 18 out of 40 it is more refined and more exciting the before both sides of its character have been improved the only problem Assin haven't addressed its rear seat space with its skinny motorbike front tires offering little grip and the engine mounted right out of the front

Channel: Fifth Gear

Views: 727,861

Rating: 3.1915309 out of 5

Keywords: Team Review: Volkswagen Phaeton W12, Volkswagen Phaeton W12, Volkswagen Phaeton (Automobile Model), Volkswagen W12 (Automobile Model), Volkswagen (Automobile Make), Fifth Gear, car, review, fast, crash, fifth, gear, Tiff Needell, Jason Plato, Vicki Butler-Henderson, car review, Top Gear

Id: b2v0-OdN78g

Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 30 2014