What is this, a Passat from VW with street cred? No way! Now we see VW testing this Passat R36 variant at the Nürburgring, and it's hard not to get excited that it is finally giving its midsize ...

Not that the 3.6-litre V6-engined Passat R36 is a bad car per se ... though neither as posh nor as sporty as an RS Audi. The engine is a bored and stroked version of the R32 Golf’s V6, and ...

the Volkswagen Passat has only risen to deliver evo-levels of excitement. The last-cycle Passat R36 was an amusing Q-car, and the W8 engine that was briefly fitted to the iteration before that ...