VW has just come out with its Phaeton-3.6lit petrol engine and an output of 280HP- at Rs75lakhs and the car will be officially launched in March to enter the luxury segment, said its Board Member. Built at VW’s Glass factory in Germany and is a real stunner in luxury sector. The assembly of Phaeton at the unit is transparent to the buyer’s presence- an Indian buyer too can fly to Germany to witness the assembling.
Phaeton can be driven away from 40VW showrooms in the country. VW’s marketing in India is with four brands-Passat, Jetta, Beetle andTouareg- and has done business volume of 3037 cars in 2009 against 1566 in 2008. A big news about VW’s small car –Polo- ready for launch in March.