The Volkswagen W12 Died So The Veyron And Phaeton Could Live
Photo: Volkswagen Welcome to another installment of Cars Of Future Past, a series here at Jalopnik where we flip through the pages of history to explore long-forgotten concepts and how they had a hand in shaping the cars we know today.
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The subject of last week’s discussion was a potential successor to the Acura NSX that didn’t quite make it to production, but wound up a short-lived, successful racing car. This week’s concept ran multiple laps around the world’s auto show circuit, each time seeming closer to an assembly line than the last. While it never quite got there, it did inform a lineage of Volkswagen-produced performance and luxury cars that survives to this day.
Audi is a rare example of a premium automaker that knows how to make small cars. And the most significant model right now is the Q4 e-tron that just launched in Germany.