you don't see many of those in the states today. got passed by one on the highway about 3 weeks ago, though!!

Top speed is GPS confirmed.
http://www.need4speed.ws/top-speed/Firestarter_PassatW8_174mph/VW-Passat-W8-Tiptronic-Delimited-174-mph-GPS-280-kmh.ht ml

Passats have among the best horsepower to top speed ratio of any midsize car because of 0.27 drag coefficient and good gearing ratios. Make sure that there are no spaces in the url when copying and pasting, especially where it says .html
Passat W8 with 270BHP with governor disabled will outrun a 270BHP First Generation Acura NSX on the Autobahn because Passat has less drag.

Where would you put the freaken supercharger?? I can't imagine how tight of fit that must be...

Bullshit!! a passat w8 can only do 250 km/h so your speedo must be off 30 km/h

I'd hope that an addition of a supercharger would give it an extra 20 mph...