At the present moment, the most interesting Passat available in the United States has a free-breathing 3.6-liter VR6 engine under the hood, which can return up to 28 miles per gallon on the highway.

Kyle has written professionally across the motorsport and motoring world since graduating from Plymouth University in 2018, and has acted as the MotoGP editor for Motorsport Week and as a Features ...

Matt Nelson is an automotive journalist with nearly a decade of experience in all things cars. He's spent years working at dealerships in sales, finance, and service. He's since traded in his pens and ...

The Volkswagen Passat was never a flashy car, quite the contrary: it’s as if the design brief was always to build a vehicle that would go unnoticed. This holds true especially for the first three ...

VW unveiled the Passat VR6 at the Meadowbrook Concours d’Elegance car show in Michigan yesterday. The VR6 is all grown up now displacing a healthy 3.6L and producing 280 horsepower, which surpasses ...

There was a time when Volkswagen wasn’t just a byword for making German automotive engineering accessible to the people. It also meant driving fun in practical and relatively affordable packages. Many ...

Refusing to give up on the US market, Volkswagen has put together a hot-blooded Passat GT concept car for the upcoming 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show. It's going to go off like a 6-cylinder bomb, or flop, ...

The 2016 Passat marks a midcycle refresh for the Chattanooga-built sedan, one that brings an ever-so-slightly resculpted exterior and an equipment update to Wolfsburg's midsize model. Don't expect ...

There will only be a Wolfsburg Edition and a SE-R for 2019. In addition to simplifying Golf engine options, Volkswagen is also axing Passats: if you want a 2019 Volkswagen Passat, your only engine ...

When I originally asked VW if we could get a Passat VR6 as our next project car, I had visions of the great, undiscovered sports sedan in my head. It's all there: abundant space, classy interior, good ...

Volkswagen established itself long ago as one of the most notable players in the world of cars, with a high volume of sales and the distinction of being the primary choice for a lot of buyers, ...

Euro-minded gearheads will be quite familiar with the Volkswagen VR6 engine. It first entered the fold in the early 1990s, and was one of the first groundbreaking new engine designs of the modern era.