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 Volkswagen Passat W8 has an infamously unreliable eight-cylinder engine that even seasoned mechanics won't touch. One Volkswagen expert and YouTuber is tearing down one of these scary engines and ...

The Volkswagen Passat W8 was a weird car when it was first introduced, and it's even weirder now that most of the W8 Passats have either grenaded themselves or became too expensive to maintain and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Volkswagen was experimenting with W-shaped engines and as it turns out, buying one of the marque’s W-powered models doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Volkswagen ...

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 ...

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, ...

Although Volkswagen has its fair share of reliable models, it's not an auto manufacturer that's necessarily famed for overall reliability. That mixed record extends to its engines; some of these are ...

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 ...