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The Volkswagen Phideon is one of 315 Volkswagen models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2016. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Volkswagen Phideon properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Volkswagen Phideon reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 2.0 L List of Volkswagen Group petrol engines#2.0 R4 16v TSI/TFSI (EA888) / EA888 Straight-four engine / I4-Turbocharger / T / 2.0 L List of Vol; quoted output is 224 hp (2.0 L) / 241 hp (2.0 L PHEV) / 296 hp (3.0 L); kerb weight is recorded at 1815 kg; drive goes through 7-speed DL382 dual-clutch; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Longitudinal front-engine, front-wheel drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Longitudinal front-engine, four-wheel drive (4motion. Worked together, those figures give roughly 123 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Volkswagen's own catalogue the Volkswagen Phideon sits alongside the Volkswagen Apollo, the Volkswagen Routan, the Kübelwagen, the MPV Tehran. The record names the Volkswagen Phaeton as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Felix Schell. Assembly is recorded at China: Shanghai (SAIC-VW).
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