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 ...

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 ...

We are big Volkswagen Passat fans. The $22,000 1.8-turbo is a terrific car for the money, and the fast, smooth V6-powered models are an excellent step up. Both engine choices are available in a sedan ...

If you combined "eight-cylinder engines" and "Volkswagens" in the same sentence a few years ago, you'd have been meet with either stares of incredulity or outright guffaws. The people's car company ...

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, ...

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 ...

Peter earned a Bachelor of Archeology and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and has since joined his love of driving and riding with storytelling. His voice is full of southern ...

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 ...

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

While the name of its parent company literally means "people's car," today's Nice Price or No Dice Volkswagen Passat W8 is a car for only a select few; those willing to put up with some quirks and ...