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 ...

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 ...

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 "bridge, ...

I don't know if the W8 Passat was as unreliable as everyone remembers it to be, or if it was only that people who expected something approaching Camry-grade reliability from what was a reasonably ...

All carmakers seem to want buyers who are fairly young and trend-setting. Why care about cutting-edge customers; you'd think retiring AARP members would have the fattest wallets most worth chasing, ...

Volkswagen is heading into several new market segments with a raft of exciting products. Certainly, the biggest news will be the upcoming Colorado sport/utility, but don't overlook the Passat W8 ...

I know we're all enjoying the good times finally being back, but that doesn't mean all our problems have disappeared. Like me, you probably have an absurd amount of cash sitting around, just taking up ...

Through the years, automakers have answered many unasked questions. Sometimes the answer is a hit like the Ford Mustang or Chrysler minivan. More often than not, it's a rolling enigma that inevitably ...

Even by the silly standards of the early '00s, the Passat W8 was an ambitious idea - to put it politely. This was the era of big engines going into unsuitable places, from the availability of the 350Z ...

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 ...