Passat W8 .... Should I ...?

[LeStig]

Locally owned
full history
140k .....
never seen one until I passed this one heading into town .....

anyone on here with one or have any experiences with someone that has or had one .... Good and bad ...
wooild be a weekender come project car along with my 4motion Bora ....

thanks

[sports racer]

W8 local? The only one I've ever seen is a grey one in Canberra.

Disgustingly quick for a car that looks like your mum should be driving it and I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

Is it advertised anywhere? If you do buy it you have to let me come and have a close look.

Cheers

Paul

[HaydEn]

There's been one on ebay in qld for months. Iirc 7k

[LeStig]

Yep it's local and someone's mother is driving it !!! There's a couple on car sales as well .... Only the same one as eBay now ... One from Victoria has been taken off ....

[3C4M Guy]

I'm not sure that I agree with the comment earlier in this thread that a Passat W8 is disgustingly quick. In fact, by today's standards it's relatively slow. If I've got my facts straight, it develops 202kW with 370Nm of torque for a car with a kerb weight of 1,665kg. That's 121 kW/Tonne (W/kg).

By comparison, a Passat B6 3.2L VR6 has 114 kW/Tonne and the R36 has 131 kW/Tonne. So I'd expect it to be slower than the R36 which has an engine with 220kW and 350Nm. I was thinking that the extra torque of the W8 would be nice, but the extra 20Nm is insignificant.

To put things into perspective, a Holden Commodore VE SS with a 6.0L V8 has 270kW and 530Nm for 143 kW/Tonne. I might agree that M3s and C63s are very quick with 192 kW/Tonne. "Disgustingly quick" I might reserve for a Ferrari 488 GTB with 334 kW/Tonne.

Having said all that, the Passat W8 could be a very good car to own. It sounds like a bargain for what you get. There are YouTube clips which show off a great engine note. A decent balance in the bank account might be needed if things go wrong.

[Jakeys]

To put things into perspective, a Holden Commodore VE SS with a 6.0L V8 has 270kW and 530Nm for 143 kW/Tonne. I might agree that M3s and C63s are very quick with 192 kW/Tonne. "Disgustingly quick" I might reserve for a Ferrari 488 GTB with 334 kW/Tonne.

To add to that perspective, power to weight is not everything either. The R36 is quicker than the VE SS (And I believe the VF SS by extension as the VF is not any faster) both from 0-100 and from personal experience (On track of course) beyond that as well. Although I agree the W8 would not be R36 speed, the R36 was maxed out and designed to be fast, it is a sports car, where the W8 is not. I think, for what it is, it's quite fast. Disgustingly so, definitely not, but it is a fast car for its class.

[nightphotographer]

I think what he was trying to say is that it's a sleeper...he wasn't trying to say it's the fastest car out there, but considering how it looks, it will surprise a few people.

I enquired about one recently but it sold pretty quick. Would really like one, but if anything went wrong, you'll be taking out a second mortgage for replacement parts.

[sports racer]

What I meant was if you saw this at the lights there's no way you would expect it to be as quick as it is, especially when most Passats are 1.8.

[eurobahn5]

I would have bought that one on e-bay, but I found out about it too late, enquired on it, but he said it had already sold ! A piece of motoring engineering history I think.