Let’s see if its price needs a mod too. ... W8 engine, it also rocks a six-speed manual and all of the cars that carried the W8 also featured VW's 4motion AWD.

2003 VW Passat W8 MOTION Performance Specifications . Undoubtedly, though, the standout feature away from the low used prices is the 4.0-liter W-8 mill it boasts.

With the Passat W8, VW launches the first of several upper-segment cars that will include an as-yet-unnamed sport/utility vehicle in 2003, a Giugiaro-designed sports coupe and a luxury sedan, the ...

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 ...

It Doesn't Get Much Rarer Than a VW Passat W8 Wagon With a Manual. With only 97 sold in the US, you're not going to see another one of these for sale for a long time.

VW executives dropped plans to use the W8 in the Skoda Superb and canceled plans for a W-8 Golf R40 because the 250-hp V-6 Golf R32 has just 25 fewer hp. Volkswagen denies the Passat W8 was a flop.

VW has stopped W8 production due to sales so slow it oftentimes seemed that customers were sneaking into dealerships at night and putting their Passat W8sback on the lot. The goal was a modest ...

Volkswagen, builder of low-price, high-mileage economy cars, also has become the builder of high-price, low-mileage luxury cars. A car for every purse and every purpose, you could say, which is wha… ...

Volkswagen offered the 4.0-liter Passat W8 4Motion, and Audi, the 6.0-liter A8 W12, whose engine went on to power the VW Phaeton, Bentley Continental GT and record-setting W12 Nardo.