Volkswagen Phaeton Volkswagen Phaeton The Volkswagen Phaeton () ("Typ" 3D) is a Full-size (F-segment in Europe) luxury sedan/saloon manufactured by the German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen, described by Volkswagen as their "premium class" vehicle. Introduced at the 2002 Geneva Motor Show, the Phaeton was marketed worldwide. Sales in North America ended in 2006. Sales globally ended in 2016. The name Phaeton derives from Phaëton, the son of Phoebus (or Helios) in Greek mythology, by way of the phaeton auto body style and the type of horse-drawn carriage that preceded it. Production ended in March 2016 and an all-electric second generation was slated to
HMS Phaeton (1782) June - "Poisson Volante", of ten guns, and "Général Washington". On 27 November "Phaeton" and were among the six vessels of a squadron that captured the 28-gun "Blonde" off Ushant. In February 1794 "Phaeton" was paid off, but the next month Captain William Bentinck recommissioned her. During the battle of the Glorious First of June, "Phaeton" came to the aid of the dismasted . While doing so, "Phaeton" exchanged broadsides with the French ship-of-the-line "Impetueux. "Phaeton" suffered three men killed and five wounded. She was the only one of the support vessels there to suffer casualties. In 1847 the Admiralty