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 ...

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 ...

Around the time of the new millennium, the Volkswagen Automotive Group (VAG) was putting its fingers in every pie it could find under the direction of the legendary Ferdinand Piëch. He wanted to make ...

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 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 ...

Before I joined the team here, I worked at a Volkswagen enthusiast blog called VWVortex, and I can tell you with certainty that the quickest way to make new friends after the pandemic is to show up to ...