Clarkson reviews the VW Phaeton again, and takes "Danish is cool" to another level

[Labcoatguy]

Link here

Snippets:

"It’s the Bang & Olufsen way. Put some simple Philips technology in a sleek black box and you can charge the earth. Which is why you are now being asked to pay £64 for a smoke alarm, just because it’s Danish, and £534 for a chair just because it was designed by a man called Arne.

It’s almost as though everyone in Denmark is employed to do nothing but think of a sleek new mounting system for an iPod. And that, of course, brings me on to the Volkswagen Phaeton....
....But most people, me included, need a bit more, I dunno, pizzazz and zestiness.

We know that when Volkswagen gave this car to a Belgian and asked him to fit a better-looking body, the result was the Bentley Continental. So what I suggest is that VW now gives it to a Dane.

No really. If the Danes can make me want to refit my entire house with new radiators because they look nice, and install an iPod cum bog roll dispenser, I’m damn sure they could transform the excellent Phaeton basics into the absolute must-have accessory.

Let me put it this way. You all want an Aston Martin, don’t you. You know it’s made up of Jag and Ford bits but you don’t care. You want one because it looks just so sleek and amazing. Right. And where was the designer of the V8 Vantage from? Well, let me put it this way. He’s called Henrik Fisker. "

[Magnet]

The stuff about Denmark? So true!

[Amilo-D]

Give it to the dutch i say. They'll fit some groovy steel/padded interior and rolling/tilting body bits to it.

[marcos_eirik]

He's wrong about Bang & Olufsen, they do make their own technology, except from their mobile phones. All Hi-Fi made by B&O consists of their own components.

[jayhawk]

Yes, Denmark...the country that gave us Aqua and Junior Senior.

Oh, and me.