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

Boasting a long body, grandiose interior, a whopping great W-8 engine under the rounded hood, and bags of comfort, it is the 2003 Volkswagen Passat W8 MOTION that today makes for a very affordable ...

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 ...

Volkswagen offered the 4.0-liter Passat W8 4Motion, and Audi, the 6.0-liter A8 W12, whose engine went on to power the VW Phaeton, Bentley Continental GT and record-setting W12 Nardo.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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.

Then this Volkswagen Passat W8 Wagon is possibly the car for you. ... Its engine was fascinating, though—essentially two VR4s arranged in a V-shape joined to a common crank.

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.