The Volkswagen Passat W8 MOTION is available on the used market for under $5,000 and can be a great way into the luxury ...

When Volkswagen dropped a beautiful Blue Spirit Pearl-colored Passat W8 4Motion at our doorstep for a yearlong evaluation, nearly our entire staff asked the same question: Isn't $38,000-eight-cylinder ...

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, ...

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 ...

It seems someone wanted to drive our long-term Passat even more than we did, as it disappeared into the night shortly after the last update. One of our staffers was at a local restaurant when his ...

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 ...

Technically, VW built the B5-generation Passat between 1996 and 2006, with the facelifted version, also known as the B5.5, popping up in 2001 boasting revised styling and a flagship W8 version. This ...

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The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe VW says it's one of only nine Passats in the U.S. with its drivetrain. You'd think if it's that rare it'd have been left alone but instead it's been ...

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 ...

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 ...