I really hope you forgot a /s

y’all this is gud parsh I don’t care what you say this is the guddest parsh to ever el parshamino it up with a parsh

Whenever I see one and get excited and whoever I'm with asks what the big deal is, I say "you know what a Bugatti is? That Passat basically has half of a Bugatti engine powering it!" Then I get a funny look and have one less friend.

This Passat isn’t just special because it has a standard transmission. The W8 itself is rare car with effectively a one-off engine. The W8 engine was created, used in the Passat, then never used again. The closest thing to it is the W12 of the Phaeton or W16 of the Veyron. So it’s a weird piece of VW history in a…

Good to know! I’ll definitely keep an eye out next time I pass one.

Hehe. Nigerian here. Long time reader of Jalopnik but this is my first comment ever. A very significant share of car exports from the US and Europe (where cars are LHD) to Africa is to Nigeria. Most folks here can’t afford brand new cars or will rather buy foreign used to drive less boring cars. In the example…

Fear not! My obsession passion has spread to VWs and to commercial vehicles. A couple really high mileage TDIs, an Audi TT, a school bus, and a manual Passat W8!

Just curious - where do you take your G8 GXP for factory/warranty service these days?

Easy...unfortunately.

Sometimes you can find better bad deals :)

I may be broken.

The good news is that I have a wrench on hand.

David Tracy with the sensible suggestion. Has the world gone ma- oh...yeah.

because men are very, very fragile snowflakes in this country, that is why. I agree w/you.. 

VW made the Phaeton specifically to get some of Mercedes’ expensive car territory as revenge for Mercedes making cheap cars like the A-class.

This is a ‘I can’t get this heap of shite to work properly’ sale isn’t it.

someone gives me a car I’m gonna take a damn photo

if you figure it out we have some open positions 

yes but I’m also aware that Ford is going to read these comments and the more I say it, the more encouraging it is

OH no, how dare I encourage a billion-dollar automaker to give away more gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars to hardworking charitable people lol