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 W8 Was Overcomplicated, Underpowered and Too Costly for the Touareg and Phaeton W8 - how we hardly knew thee. The news is now official, production of the very unique W8 engine and the Passat W8, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

]]> VW doesn't intend to sell very many eight-cylinder Passats, only 5,000 per year in the U.S. But it does intend to sell them for far less than any other eight-cylinder German sedan in America, at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mercedes-AMG just widened some eyes by dropping a four-cylinder engine into the AMG GT. It’s the same engine that powers the SL43 AMG, only with a few extra ponies. Prior to its new four-pot, the AMG ...

The fruits of VW's labors resulted in the world's first and only narrow angle V6 engine, a distinction that carries on even today. At 2.8-liters in displacement, the VR6, as it was to be called, was ...