In TV sitcom terms, Volkswagen’s been "movin’ on up" for some time in an attempt to keep upscale-minded VW owners from jumping ship. How’s the march to the penthouse going? We’re looking to find out ...

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 ...

Having a seldom-seen engine under the hood of your car can be a great talking point; depending on what you have, it can offer impressive credentials, and it can be a bit of a boast. But, throughout ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday we brought you the world's only diesel V12 car; today, it's the only one with a W8 Easy to forget in a more buttoned-down, post dieselgate era, but two decades ago Volkswagen was capable of ...

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 ...

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 ...