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Phaetons

Hellenic bill of the 1997 model. You will be surprised, but it also depicts a phaeton. The famous quadrig of Apollo pulls a body with that name. Such crews were not only at Apollo, but also the whole Greek elite who lived on Olympus. And once the son of the sun god Helios took the keys to the solar chariot, drawn in the four of frantic horses, and rushed around the sky without permission from his father.
Further, apparently, it was very hot, but a fleeting day. The young driver did not hold the horses in the apex of the arc and collapsed at the zenith itself. The Greeks still remember the golden rain spilled in the sea. The guy's name was Phaeton. His name was recorded in the name of the crew the first case in history, when the madness of the brave sang a song.
So it was possible to consider open bodies of phaetons. The Greeks themselves did not make any efforts to do this. The Germans took control under control. The first cars were also phaetons, in which only next to the driver, like on ancient uniforms, and not behind him, a passenger could sit. When the second row of seats appeared, they began to call the double-phaetons, the third triple-fheetons. And when the unconditional high-tech, not characteristic of equestrian crews, appeared in the doorway, the French name Cabriolet, which designated the same thing as the same as Phaeton, came out to the forefront. French in the age of gas -replacements was clearly better than ancient Greek. However, that the phaeton, that the convertible was led to the body with a folding top.
 
 
What's in the phaeton from Phaeton? Similar kinematics of lifting mechanisms lift the trunk cover rises smoothly, as a cloth top used to rise. The same supplier of electrical equipment Bosch
A minibar, a radio receiver, a folding table rising for greater comfort and calm, a glass partition behind the front sofa and a huge free floor area is Horch 951a. The same floor area, a multimedia center with a 14-inch monitor, individually customized chairs and a microclimate are modern Phaeton
Massively producing cabiners and phaetons allowed one simple thing of the frame. She dictated the fashion for bending wings, narrow salons with wide fields for the steps and for the imagination of body couturia. As an example of such a treatment with a household phaeton, we give the Horch 951A produced by the Berlin factory Erdmann & Rossi. The car was made two years before the fatal mistake of Germany and was intended for the highest managers of the Reich, Wehrmacht and the party. The gloomy German genius, sitting on her rear plush sofa in front of the mini-bar and the Telefunken receiver, became especially gloomy with the outbreak of war in the east. The horses carried through two solid to the oncoming.

Classic round scales of devices, surrounded by thin chromium hoops, are not even a fashion in the neighborhood with a natural varnished tree. This is a good tone and a high style for all times, until it invents something fundamentally new, such as a solar chariot. The chic of the car directly depends on the effort with which it was created. The effort lies in the little things. The little things appear at the level of tactile perception, they are felt with the fingertips and are remembered for a long time. Phaeton accumulates such memories
After that, decades passed. Everything was formed and formed. The bearing body was rarely compatible with openness to Helios. In the absence of worthy offers, a car without a top became the height of a special luxury (a hundred years ago the situation was reverse). And in order for the name of the heir to the sun god to become a brand, the phaetons should disappear from the stage under the weight of the iron curtain of a rigid and stationary roof. And Volkswagen turned for this name for his most luxurious car, in which two originally German concepts were embodied: a manifesto and a triumph of will. This means that they declared and achieved their own. According to the generally accepted French terminology VW Phaeton, a hundred percent sedan. But in the German one hundred percent Limousine. And German in this segment is clearly more hatching and livelier than French.
 
Parallels
1939 Horch 951a Erdmann & RossIn Places 4, Wheel Base 3750 mm, length 5640 mm, width 1840 mm, height 1740 mm, engine 8 row, operating volume 4944 cm3, power 120 hp. 3600 vol./Min., Maximum speed 130 km/h, acceleration 0100 km/h 28 s, fuel consumption 24 l/100 km
2009 Volkswagen Phaeton industry 4, wheelbase 2880 mm, length 5055 mm, width 1905 mm, height 1450 mm, engine V8, operating volume 4172 cm3, power 335 hp. 6500 vol./Min., Maximum speed 250 km/h, acceleration 0100 km/h 6.9 s, fuel consumption 9.618 l/100 km


 

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