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
Hot Wheels in California. In 2004, Hot Wheels unveiled its ""Hot 100"" line, comprising 100 new models. These new models included cartoonish vehicles such as the "'Tooned" (vehicles based on the larger "Hot" "Tunerz" line of Hot Wheels created by Eric Tscherne), "Blings" (boxy bodies and big wheels), "Hardnoze" (enlarged fronts), "Crooze" (stretched out bodies), and "Fatbax" (super-wide back tires and short bodies). "Fatbax" models include Toyota Supra and a Corvette C6. These vehicles did not sell as well as Mattel expected, and many could still be found in stores throughout 2005. Mattel also released 2004 "First Editions" cars with unpainted Zamac