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 ...

Godspeed to whoever wins either auction, since maintaining these rare machines is a noble pursuit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While luxury carmakers such as Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar are marching down-market by peddling cars with prices that start at under $30,000, other marques are marching up-market. Case in point: ...

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 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 ...

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 ...