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 ...

This B5 is a 2004 model year car that features a W8 engine under the hood, and has a clean Idaho title. How much do you think ...

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 ...

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 one ...

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 ...

America has a rich history of performance cars. But in the supercar world, it's not as populus as you might think. While we know America for cars like the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Corvette, and Dodge ...

You know about inline engines like I-4s and even I-6s. Then there are V6 and V8 engines. And, if you're familiar with exotic sports cars, you know about V12s and V16s. What you don't hear about very ...