Everyone knows that putting things in places they don’t belong is asking for trouble, but the creators of the Volkswagen Phaeton didn’t care. The luxury sedan boom of the early 2000s saw automakers with more development resources than ever drawn into a high-speed battle to upstage one another with bespoke touches and technical upgrades. Some features won, some lost, and a few went down in history as excessively complex solutions to exceedingly minimal annoyances.
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