Volkswagen’s current Passat mid-size sedan is good sufficient, getting solidly constructed and anonymously handsome, and it even topped the a comparison test. Yet, with a maximum of 280 horsepower obtainable from the factory, exciting is a single issue the Passat is not. Guess what? Tanner Foust’s VW Passat is exciting—but a Formula Drift auto kind of has to be.
Since front-wheel drive and less than 300 horsepower can’t crack a pro drift ride’s spec sheet, Tanner’s Passat pushes power to its rear wheels. Oh, and it has 900 horsepower thanks to a nitrous-fed V-7 It is sort of like a TDI—if your definition of TDI is “Totally Damn Insane.”
Certainly, Tanner Foust’s Rockstar Energy/Nitto Tire–sponsored Passat has almost nothing in common with regular element Passat models save for its vague resemblance to 1. Besides the 450-cubic-inch V-8 stuffed into its nose, Foust’s drift car packs a 4-speed dog-sort transmission, RS-R custom coil-overs, Recaro seats, a custom roll cage, a giant APR Overall performance rear wing, and new Nitto NT05 tires. That spec sheet hardly captures the sheer awesometude of the drift Passat—the factor is stanced out on 17-inch front and 18-inch rear wheels and sports an appropriately wild Rockstar Energy livery.
Do we want one particular of these Passats? Completely, but we almost certainly wouldn’t be capable to whip it sideways about a Formula Drift course with practically the élan of 3-time U.S. RallyCross champion and 2-time Formula Drift champion Foust. Nevertheless, we’d enjoy to attempt. In the meantime, may possibly we recommend that Volkswagen launch a new line of grossly overpowered “TDI” models?
This 900-hp, V-8–Powered VW Passat Will Commit Its Life Sideways
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