When Volkswagen dropped a beautiful Blue Spirit Pearl-colored Passat W8 4Motion at our doorstep for a yearlong evaluation, nearly our entire staff asked the same question: Isn't $38,000-eight-cylinder ...

Anyone who wandered into the European launch of Volkswagen’s Passat W8 might have thought he had stumbled into a technical briefing about the autobahn. VW officials kept talking about it as a "bridge, ...

Do you want a station wagon with eight-cylinders and a manual transmission, but find the Cadillac CTS-V Wagon far too common? Then this Volkswagen Passat W8 Wagon is possibly the car for you. As one ...

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 ...

Peter earned a Bachelor of Archeology and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has since joined his love of driving and riding with storytelling. His voice is full of southern ...

I say love because love isn't logical, and neither is the Passat W8. Beyond the rarity, they're also infamous for being unreliable and exceptionally complex. That's an undesirable trifecta that makes ...

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 ...

We'd have answered no to all three, but VW chairman Ferdinand Pich says yes. He wants to move VW upmarket and boost the brand's prominence relative to Audi. He's also the one who called for the W ...

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 ...

Technically, VW built the B5-generation Passat between 1996 and 2006, with the facelifted version, also known as the B5.5, popping up in 2001 boasting revised styling and a flagship W8 version. This ...

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 ...

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