Volkswagen's W8 engine only made it into a single production model, the 2001-2004 Volkswagen Passat. Specifically, the B5.5 ...

VW extended that crowded house format to the W8 creating a compact and complicated mill. It was used in other applications, but the first was in the B5.5 Passat, with the intent of elevating that ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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… ...

In August — that feels like years ago — I bought a crashed Volkswagen Passat W8 for $800 with the intention of turning it into my next off-roader. I didn’t think these cars were any more ...

Read this 2003 Volkswagen Passat W8 Long-Term road test review from the the auto experts at European Car Magazine ...

The Passat W8 is the first vehicle in Volkswagen's ambitious assault on German luxury marques. Badge snobbery aside, Steve Moody wonders if being very good is enough to compete against Audi, BMW ...