MUNICH, Germany --The W-8 engine configuration may be dead. Volkswagen AG has stopped producing the Passat W8 model because of slow sales, says CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder. It was the only vehicle to use ...

Volkswagen Golf Mk2 was one of the best-selling models released by the German company during the ‘80s, with over 6.3 million units estimated to have been built at various plants across the world.

Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

The Volkswagen Passat W8 has an infamously unreliable eight-cylinder engine that even seasoned mechanics won't touch. One Volkswagen expert and YouTuber is tearing down one of these scary engines and ...

Ask any Volkswagen enthusiast, and they will tell you the MK2 Golf was one of the most iconic performance cars of the 80s. They are right. The MK2 built a reputation in pretty much every facet of the ...

If the original Golf was the car that started a revolution over at Volkswagen, its successor, the Mk2, was the one that refined the recipe. Also known as the Typ 19E, it was built on the VW Group’s A2 ...

Don’t you just love it when a sensible car company briefly turns its back on sanity and creates something terrifically left-field? Like the time when Lexus launched the LFA, a V10-engined supercar ...