Barq’s is worse than Dad’s, Mug, A&W et. al. Root beer is best when it’s spicy and sweet.

This must be the people who don’t know how to pump that raise/lower handle on the sides. I’m 6'4", sit fairly upright and have headroom to spare regardless if equipped with sunroof or not in every Golf since the MK4.

Tiptronic W8s were barely faster than their V6 contemporaries from 0-60. The manual ones were considerably easier to wake up.

Ugh, my first W8 burned its HID bulb out on me too, and of course in the winter time. Brittle plastics and torx bolts with clips on the back that break off so there’s no leverage to pull out. I was lucky enough to get the half of the driver’s bumper loose enough to get the headlight assembly free, so I had one bulb…

After owning a MKV GTI, a MKV R32, a 2013 Beetle R-line, and 3.6 4motion CC, had the pleasure of owning 2 manual W8 wagons. (I totaled the first one and was fortunate enough to find an even nicer one with lower mileage right after insurance paid me out.)

The first one I owned had 137k when I purchased it, original…

B5 S4s have been in the CP pricing altitude for a few years now, but it’s also a function of keeping these things on the road. No sane person would put $3k into a 15 year old car to replace/rebuild OEM turbos and a timing kit unless there was some decent value in the used market for them.

I’d strongly bet it’s plasti-dipped. The W8 badge on the grille is blacked out too.

Specifically in an 8 cylinder configuration, yes. But the W8 was the first of several VWAG W-motors that did make it to other production vehicles. W8, W12 and W16s all share the same architecture, only extended block length for additional cylinders. It’s just 2 12 valve VR motors assembled at a V, sharing a flat plane…

As someone who JUST purchased their second manual, W8 Passat wagon (totaled my first one in September; an ‘03 with 147k miles - insurance valued the payout at $6100) (1 of 9 is an incorrect #, for manual W8 wagons, it’s somewhere in the low 100s over 2002-2004 that the W8 was sold in the US); a almost perfect specimen…