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