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A W8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine with four banks of two cylinders each, arranged in a W configuration.
In practice, the W8 engine is created from two narrow-angle VR4 engines mounted at an angle of 72 degrees from each other on a common crankshaft. Thus, the resulting four banks align to form a "W".
W8 engines are much less common than V8 engines, and the only W8 engine to reach production was manufactured by Volkswagen.
The Volkswagen 4-litre W8 engine was available in the Volkswagen Passat from September 2001 to September 2004. Production was minimal at only 11,000 units....