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 ...

The Volkswagen Passat W8 has an infamously unreliable eight-cylinder engine that even seasoned mechanics won't touch. One Volkswagen expert and YouTuber is tearing down one of these scary engines and ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Volkswagen Passat W8 was a weird car when it was first introduced, and it's even weirder now that most of the W8 Passats have either grenaded themselves or became too expensive to maintain and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...