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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VW has stopped W8 production due to sales so slow it oftentimes seemed that customers were sneaking into dealerships at night and putting their Passat W8sback on the lot. The goal was a modest 5,000 ...

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 ...

Not all that long ago, Volkswagen made an attempt to eschew the whole "people's car" schtick and sidle its product line up-market. The result was cars like today's Nice Price or No Dice W8 Passat, ...

At one point in time the weight of VW's brand aspirations fell upon the Passat. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe W8 wagon is an example of that one-time up-market push, but does this unique car come ...

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 ...