W8, What? Someone Is Selling Two Ultra-rare Volkswagen Passat W8s

The lore down the Volkswagen Passat W8 precedes it, but here's a small refresher, conscionable successful case. The W8 portion of nan Passat W8 name describes nan number of cylinders hiding nether its hood and their placement, and it's nan only car ever sold pinch a W8 engine. It is believed that Volkswagen only sold 4,931 Passat W8s successful nan United States during its three-year-long accumulation run, pinch conscionable 424 being fitted pinch nan six-speed manual transmission, and 1,227 successful the wagon assemblage style.

They're uncommon machines, truthful it's already uncommon to spot 2 connected waste astatine nan aforesaid time. But presently location are 2 Passat W8s currently up for auction connected Bring A Trailer, listed by nan aforesaid personification and photographed successful nan aforesaid place. Seems for illustration we're dealing pinch a existent B5 Passat lover.

I opportunity emotion because emotion isn't logical, and neither is nan Passat W8. Beyond nan rarity, they're besides infamous for being unreliable and exceptionally complex. That's an undesirable trifecta that makes owning either this 23-year-old Passat W8 Wagon aliases nan 22-year-old Passat W8 sedan a imaginable that's reserved for die-hard enthusiasts.

The sedan is simply a 2004 exemplary twelvemonth Passat, and it's particularly notable because it's fitted pinch nan extra-rare six-speed manual transmission. The advertisement shows that it has traveled 139,000 miles successful its lifetime, it's been treated to immoderate important mechanical activity recently, and it has an aftermarket cat-back exhaust strategy and Bilstein coilovers.

Meanwhile nan wagon is simply a 2003 exemplary twelvemonth car, and sadly no, it's not a rare-as-hens-teeth manual W8 wagon, alternatively equipped pinch nan five-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. It besides has a fewer modifications, including lowering springs, instrumentality spacers, a modified exhaust, and red-painted beforehand brake calipers pinch slotted and cross-drilled rotors. It has besides been treated to immoderate caller mechanical work, but it has traveled 189,000 miles successful its 23-year life, truthful semipermanent reliability is thing a imaginable purchaser should beryllium cognizant of.

If you've been waiting for nan correct opportunity to snag up 1 aliases 2 of nan fewer Volkswagen Passats saddled pinch this unsocial engine, past you're successful luck, since some of these cars are presently listed for auction connected Bring A Trailer, pinch nary reserve. Godspeed to whoever wins either auction, since maintaining these uncommon machines is simply a noble pursuit.