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  What this article is about While reading up about the Facel Vega for my previous blog, I came across the Bentley Crest. It is a coach-built car designed by Pininfarina, the famous Italian design house and built-in collaboration with a French company called Facel Vega. This luxury coupe has a French-Italian connection and is a car that holds a lot of history behind it.   The car and its humble beginnings The year is 1946 and most of Europe is coming out of a dark time, the World War II and Hitler’s work. Italy then led by Mussolini was a strong nation and had come under the watch of the league of nations and was sanctioned for their actions of invading Abyssinia in 1936. Italy’s friendship with Great Britain and France was cut off and they instead entered a pact with Nazi Germany on October 25 th 1936, known as the Rome-Berlin Axis based on a speech given by Mussolini a week after signing the pact.   Axis Alliance (left  Mussolini and right Hitler)...

The Volkswagen Phaeton is the first and the last full sized, S-class competitor to roll out of the Volkswagen group, sure you have the Arteon but we are talking about S-class competitor here. When the Phaeton was introduced it shared the same underpinnings of the Bentley continental, or rather the chassis of the Bentley was the exact same chassis as the phaeton. What was the motive or idea behind making this car? Don’t worry I know clearly that the Phaeton is not a stretched Passat with a stretched price tag, but let’s making things clear before geeking out about the huge amount engineering that went into this car. Ferdinand Piech wanted a car that would redefine the luxury segment and as the days of him being the chief engineer were coming to an end he wanted to produce one last car before he resigned, hence the Phaeton was born. Piech wanted a car that would do 187 mph on the autobahn and still maintain a steady temperature, the car was built like a tank with a...