{"id":526258,"date":"2010-04-13T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/13\/spy-shots-volkswagen-phaetons-third-facelift-spotted-nearly-un\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T13:42:00","slug":"spy-shots-volkswagen-phaetons-third-facelift-spotted-nearly-undisguised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526258","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: Volkswagen Phaeton&#8217;s third facelift spotted nearly undisguised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/spyphotos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spy Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/volkswagen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Volkswagen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/luxury\/\" rel=\"tag\">Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoexpress.co.uk\/news\/autoexpressnews\/250696\/new_vw_phaeton_undisguised.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/phaetonspy.jpg\" \/><\/a>You thought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/VolkswagenPhaeton\/\">Volkswagen Phaeton<\/a> went away, did you? Oh no, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/volkswagen\/\">Volkswagen<\/a> has continued to fiddle with its range-topper in Europe, which has been snagged by spy photographers while the as-yet-unannounced third-generation was on a late-night photo shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen&#8217;s chutzpah is admiriable, and the Phaeton is certainly one heck of a car, but extending its lengthy tenure of could be a refusal to admit past mistakes. It&#8217;s likely that Phaeton owners tell people of the car&#8217;s mechanical similarities to the Bentley Continental GT, while the uninitiated will shrug and see a Passat.<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoexpress.co.uk\/news\/autoexpressnews\/250696\/new_vw_phaeton_undisguised.html\">AutoExpress<\/a><\/em> reports that there are rumors of a diesel V10 as one of the panoply of possible engines, and all will probably be revealed in September at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/paris-motor-show\/\">Paris Motor Show<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoexpress.co.uk\/news\/autoexpressnews\/250696\/new_vw_phaeton_undisguised.html\">AutoExpress<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/13\/spy-shots-volkswagen-phaetons-third-facelift-spotted-nearly-un\/\">Spy Shots: Volkswagen Phaeton&#8217;s third facelift spotted nearly undisguised<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:42:00 EST.  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Oh no, Volkswagen has continued to fiddle with its range-topper in Europe, which has been snagged by spy photographers while the as-yet-unannounced third-generation was on a late-night photo shoot. Volkswagen&#8217;s chutzpah is admiriable, and the Phaeton is certainly one heck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}