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 ...

Volkswagen makes its preliminary move toward providing us with more luxurious and powerful automobiles with the introduction of the Passat W8. The Passat has become a successful midsize model for ...

MUNICH, Germany --The W-8 engine configuration may be dead. Volkswagen AG has stopped producing the Passat W8 model because of slow sales, says CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder. It was the only vehicle to use ...

Not all that long ago, Volkswagen attempted to eschew the whole "people's car" schtick and move its product line up-market. The result was cars like today's Nice Price or No Dice W8 Passat: the ...

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 ...

All carmakers seem to want buyers who are fairly young and trend-setting. Why care about cutting-edge customers; you'd think retiring AARP members would have the fattest wallets most worth chasing, ...

The Volkswagen group’s W engines have come to prominence in a number of high-powered Bugatti and Bentley models. Along with the W16 used in the Bugatti Veyron and the W12 in the Bentley, versions of ...

In case you haven’t noticed, VW is a very, very special brand when it comes to its fans - while the automaker’s creations never stray too far from the clinical attitude they’ve always exhibited, ...

America has a rich history of performance cars. But in the supercar world, it's not as populus as you might think. While we know America for cars like the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Corvette, and Dodge ...

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 ...