Used Car of the Day: 2005 Volkswagen Phaeton V8 AWD
Continuing the Volkswagen trend, we have a 17-year-old VW luxury sedan on today's docket.
For $7,500, this 195K-mile Phaeton could be yours. The seller claims this all-wheel-drive sedan has been well-cared for and he's only selling because he bought an EV. He or she also mentions that a lot of the miles are highway miles put on driving back and forth from San Francisco to LA.
Under eight grand for a well-maintained Phaeton that's loaded with luxury features? We're thinking of hopping on a plane to Cali. This is the opposite of yesterday's project car.
[Image: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Nope .... nope nope nope ... aw heck nope. This is the one thing worse that my now ex-ford-toreass
This is so appealing to me. (It's a trap.)
Note that this vehicle's owner now drives an EV.
Does the Phaeton V8 have the timing chains on the back of the engine like other VAG V8s?
I pity the fool that buys this thing.
That example Phaeton was worth about $3-3,300. If you wanted to spend $3K for a larp, may be a good time till something blows up.