Is this the pinnacle of VW craftsmanship?

Nearly.

>Some old fucks Ego: The Car
Nigger could have given us a RR Beetle as parting gift, but noooooooooooooo

No, the MK7 gti is. Doesnt matter where its built, its the best gti yet.

But you can't deny that there isn't a shit load of work, engineering, and attention to detail in the Phaeton.
To me, that's what craftsmanship means.

BMW is the best auto brand in the world they are most awarded car company ever don’t need bail out ( cough GM cough) even owning no one can compete with the superiority not even other Germans like slow ugly Mercedes aka niggermobile and then there is shit American brands that use cheap plastic and designs too attract the simple minded American peasants pickup truck are for people who need to compensate for something all jap cars are ugly terrible design and are simply inferior. People who believe otherwise should be shot or put in camps. Honda’s are gay the LS is a shit design. New Mazda’s are ugly try building a rotary that can last past 50k miles. While the e30 has won more racing awards then any other car ever. Making it best car ever made and making sti a piece of shit in comparison I own a m3 which means I’m better that most of you aka a higher being or a GOD.

>hur hur hur, I shor showd dem

A lot of work by Craftsman went into that, yes.
Craftsmanship work to me should have either a sincere purpose or Soul™, a gift from the Great Artisans to the Common Man.
Phaeton is just a corporate wank.
Should have made pic related.
Unlike a dreary Passat that was pulled of the assembly line and beefed up with gadgets from a wet dream of a CEO stuck in traffic, it would have been one last smile in the world of "GRRR FEED ME ALL THE AIR" Supercars.

> beefed up Passat
....Phaeton uses a Bentley Chassis
But to switch gears, here's another VW that I think embodies craftsmanship, and could possibly have a soul....even if it's mostly made of lowly Beetle guts.

That is more like it

what more can be done to this mans brain?

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