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Jun
Posted by Dennis » 2 Comments »

Volkswagen gets mythical

I saw this on the way to work today:

That’s the Volkswagen Phaeton, and maybe I’ve been living under a saxum, but I’d never heard of one before.

Normally we’d approve of a classical reference, but, uh … didn’t he die in a fiery wreck or something?

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  • Chuck Jones
    June 10th, 2011 at 9:47 am

    This reminds me of the often noted irony that Olympic Airlines (former) frequent flyer program was called Icarus.

  • Andrew
    June 11th, 2011 at 11:12 am

    It may be a questionable reference, but at least it’s a questionable reference with a pedigree! There have been vehicles called “phaetons” for a couple of hundred years now:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeton_(carriage)

    Presumably Volkswagen had this phaeton in mind when naming their car.

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