HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - The Volkswagen Passat was not designed to accommodate a V-8. So when former VW AG Chairman Ferdinand Piech decided to expand the Passat model range with an eight-cylinder ...

While the name of its parent company literally means "people's car," today's Nice Price or No Dice Volkswagen Passat W8 is a car for only a select few; those willing to put up with some quirks and ...

We are big Volkswagen Passat fans. The $22,000 1.8-turbo is a terrific car for the money, and the fast, smooth V6-powered models are an excellent step up. Both engine choices are available in a sedan ...

The early 2000s were packed with performance cars, but few looked as plain, yet went as hard, as the 2001 Volkswagen Passat W8. To most people, it was just a sensible German sedan or wagon, depending ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Volkswagen was experimenting with W-shaped engines and as it turns out, buying one of the marque’s W-powered models doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Volkswagen ...

The name Volkswagen is German for "car for the people", a car for everyone - ironically, the Volkswagen group is now Europe's largest manufacturer of automobiles and is moving the brand upwards and ...

Somewhere in Connecticut sits an example of one of the rarest modern Volkswagens in the country. What you're looking at isn't just some everyday Passat wagon. No, this Passat has Volkswagen's infamous ...

Gstaad, Switzerland - Does Volkswagen need a $38,000 sedan? Do VW and Audi need competing eight-cylinder luxury cars? Does the world need a W-8 engine? We'd have answered no to all three, but VW ...

VW has stopped W8 production due to sales so slow it oftentimes seemed that customers were sneaking into dealerships at night and putting their Passat W8sback on the lot. The goal was a modest 5,000 ...

After almost half a century of sterling service, VW has finally killed off the Passat, at least in the U.S. First introduced in 1973 in Germany, and arriving in North America for 1974, the mid-sized ...