The Phaeton is a stonkingly good luxury car. Seriously. It is only the VW badge that lets it down. If it had the 4 rings, the 3 pointed star or the blue and white propeller it would have sold like hot cakes.
Being the swansong of ex VAG supremo Ferdinand Piech, the lofty engineering targets set for the Phaeton is possibly dwarfed only by the Bugatti Veyron's.
But I'm not so sure what good removing the roof and 2 doors will be.