Phaeton Farm

Love the Lagonda Taraf but the side view sure has some very strong styling resemblance to the Cadillac CT6, especially the rear door and C-pillar shape!

RS6 are everywhere it seems. This just showed up in my neighborhood the other day.

The Phaetons for 2006, the last year in the US, lost the sharkfin antenna on the roof.

Final year for the US!

sure does

I think Concord has two Eichler neighborhoods

He pulls the Airstream behind his '59 DeVille Convertible but he didn't have that one outside today

Sure is!

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Yep, not seen is his Nash Metropolitan and the MGB 😁

I keep the Phaeton fleet in the single digits though 😉

They are slightly different in color but I don't know the color name. I got a ride in both of them over the years and those really are very special cars. I'm just gonna say memory seats in '57!!

My neighbor and fellow car guy is rearranging his fleet today. Yes, that's a '57 and a '58 Eldorado Brougham!

That's a beautiful Century! How did you manage to get a ride on Treat Blvd?!

Just look at that fuel rail 😅

The new thermostat is in, now it's time to put it back together.
Reason for the failure was a broken wire to the electronically controlled thermostat.

Wow, that's 16 😬

The downside of 12-cylinder ownership is everything is times 12

This view never gets old 😁

The CT5-V is great as a performance sedan but I'm into large luxury sedans with ridiculous power. The ride has to be comfortable when I'm just cruising along hence the appeal of the CT6-V over the smaller CT5-V.

I wasn't able to test that but it's very responsive w/ power on tap at all times. Very similar to the feel in my W12 Phaetons that power is instantly available without having to push the engine but of course the CT6-V is a lot quicker.

or you buy a CARB certified crate engine

I'm not an expert on it but if you put a different engine in it, it would have to go through the CARB certification process which is too expensive

Even if possible it wouldn't be an option here in California.

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It probably would have found it's way into other GM products down the road but the pandemic just made GM hit the brakes on their non-mass market vehicles in 2020. Makes you wonder why they didn't put it into the CT5-V Blackwing.

That's what I would assume but with only 1,200 Blackwing engines ever made, it's gonna be difficult to find even a used one. There's one on eBay for like $18k. That might be worth the risk at a $30k price point but not at current sales prices. Not sure another engine would work due to electronics

Appreciate it. I could get some extended warranty from one of the reputable companies but not sure how they would deal with an unrepairable car, would still be a major hassle to get them to agree to a payout I assume.

But you'd take a big hit financially.
Makes me wonder how the values are going to react to the fact that basically all of them are now out of the warranty period.

Very true. It's not perfect, the interior is fine but not Phaeton level good, but overall at the current price point it would be a fun daily driver.

Yeah, really a sad situation. Unfortunately GM was really making it difficult to get them to buy it back even though they were still under the 6-year powertrain warranty. So even though it's in my price range, I can't risk getting it bricked by engine issues.