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, ...

Volkswagen makes its preliminary move toward providing us with more luxurious and powerful automobiles with the introduction of the Passat W8. The Passat has become a successful midsize model for ...

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 ...

Contrary to what you may have heard, sometimes size does matter. But it’s also true that what really makes a difference is what you do with it. Consider: On our initial drive of Volkswagen’s Passat W8 ...

We'd have answered no to all three, but VW chairman Ferdinand Pich says yes. He wants to move VW upmarket and boost the brand's prominence relative to Audi. He's also the one who called for the W ...

Volkswagen, builder of low-price, high-mileage economy cars, also has become the builder of high-price, low-mileage luxury cars. A car for every purse and every purpose, you could say, which is what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...