The Volkswagen Passat W8 was a weird car when it was first introduced, and it’s even weirder now that most of the W8 Passats have either grenaded themselves or became too expensive to maintain and ended up getting lost. This one, however, is an impossibly well-kept and low-mileage example of one of Volkswagen’s most peculiar decisions, … Read more
Not all that long ago, Volkswagen attempted to eschew the whole “people’s car” schtick and move its product line up-market. The result was cars like today’s Nice Price or No Dice W8 Passat: the fanciest Passat ever. Let’s see if its price now makes it one for the people. The 2024 Volkswagen Passat Shows Why … Read more
Over the decades there have been many one-off or limited-production vehicles that have been lost to the sands of time, and many cars that were planned for production but never made it there, for various reasons. Some automakers have begun to build recreations or “continuation cars” to fill in the gaps of history, and Audi … Read more
Image: Porsche On the back of a successful Cayenne S Hybrid introduction, Porsche also launched its first hybrid racing car in 2010 with the GT3 R Hybrid. This incredible car was not built to any specific rulebook, though it raced a few times in special exhibition classes and almost immediately proved its mettle on the … Read more
