Volkswagen's W8 engine only made it into a single production model, the 2001-2004 Volkswagen Passat. Specifically, the B5.5 ...

The 2002 Passat W8 is an important departure for the automaker. It is the first VW-brand car powered by an eight-cylinder engine. The 4.0-liter W8 produces 270 hp and 273 pounds-feet of torque.

Even though the Bentley W12 engine was discontinued in April 2024, it is still loved by many. Here are the key pros and cons ...

VW had high hopes for the W8 engine, but it has been disappointed. Audi turned it down for the S4, choosing a turbocharged V6 instead. The W-8 was intended to go into Volkswagen's Touareg SUV and ...

That would all change in late 2001 with the introduction of the W8 engine in the newly restyled Passat. Alarmingly described in retrospect as a 'test bed' for later W12 and W16 engines, the 'W ...

The 4.0-liter W8 featured two narrow-angle 15-degree VR4 cylinder blocks arranged on a common crankshaft at an angle of 72 degrees. It delivered 275 hp and 273 lb-ft (370 Nm) of torque and the ...

There was also the fact that B5-gen Passat was the only car to ever use Volkswagen’s W8 engine. In fact, it was the only car in history to ever use a W8 engine.

The W8 was a bit of a Dr. Frankenstein project, formed by taking two of Volkswagen's revered narrow-angle VR6 engines, lopping two cylinders off each one, and melding the two halves together.

Weighing just 190 kg and measuring only 420mm in length, 710mm in width and a mere 683mm in height, Volkswagen's W8 is two 15 degree V4 engines fused together with staggered cylinder bores and ...

Audi declined the W8 for their S4 when the engine was first introduced, choosing instead to go with the biturbo'd V6, and VW execs have recently axed plans to put the W8 in a Skoda and in a Golf R40.

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 wha… ...

Its main calling card will be a 4.0L/275-hp W8 engine. No typo, that's W8, meaning two vees of four cylinders each, placed at a very narrow angle within the engine block, not unlike VW's terrific VR6.