Phaeton body Volkswagen introduced a vehicle with the name Phaeton, which has a typical four-door sedan body style. Phaeton body A phaeton is a style of open automobile without any fixed weather protection, which was popular from the 1900s until the 1930s. It is an automotive equivalent of the horse-drawn fast, lightweight phaeton carriage. A popular style in the USA from the mid–1920s and continuing into the first half of the 1930s was the dual cowl phaeton, with a cowl separating the rear passengers from the driver and front passenger. Phaetons fell from favour when closed cars and convertible body styles became
HMS Phaeton (1782) in the Far East. Later in 1804 she and chased the French privateer "Henriette" back to Port Louis. Also, "Phaeton" recaptured the "Mornington", which the French privateer Nicholas Surcouf in "Caroline" had captured on 14 August 1804; Captain Fallonard of the brig "Île de France" recaptured "Mornington". The British recaptured "Mornington" again as she continued to sail under the British Ensign until she was burnt in the Bay of Bengal in 1816. On 2 August 1805, under Captain John Wood, "Phaeton" fought the 40-gun "Sémillante", Captain Léonard-Bernard Motard, in the San Bernardino Strait off San Jacinto, Philippines, together with the