Volkswagen’s current Passat mid-size sedan is good adequate, getting solidly constructed and anonymously handsome, and it even topped a comparison test. Yet, with a maximum of 280 horsepower accessible from the factory, fascinating is one issue the Passat is not. Guess what? Tanner Foust’s VW Passat is exciting—but a Formula Drift automobile sort 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-8. 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 practically nothing at all in frequent with regular factor Passat models save for its vague resemblance to a single. Besides the 450-cubic-inch V-8 stuffed into its nose, Foust’s drift car packs a 4-speed dog-type 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 point is stanced out on 17-inch front and 18-inch rear wheels and sports an appropriately wild Rockstar Energy livery.
Do we want one of these Passats? Totally, but we almost certainly wouldn’t be able to whip it sideways around 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 love to attempt. In the meantime, might we suggest that Volkswagen launch a new line of grossly overpowered “TDI” models?
This 900-hp, V-8–Powered VW Passat Will Invest Its Life Sideways
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