Tanner Foust Goes Drifting in His 1,000 HP VW Passat during a Freaking Hillclimb

In April, the monstrous Passat, which, surprisingly, still looks like the NMS model offered to U.S. civilians, will celebrate its second birthday. To celebrate, we are now bringing you a piece of footage that shows the athlete mixing two disciplines, namely drifting and hillclimbing.

The nicely rounded output mentioned above comes from a not-so-German engine, since the nose of the sedan accommodates a 7.4-liter V8 based on an LS7. The animal, which obviously packs a rear-wheel-drive architecture, likes to get high on nitrous and, more importantly, has been built with official support.

The unit works with a four-speed dog box, while a Tilton clutch is also on the list. As for the hair-raising soundtrack of the vee-eight, the exhaust features an eight-into-one sequential layout.

Trying to drift a factory Passat won't take you anywhere, as we found out on multiple occasions, which makes the action in the clip below even more worthy of your attention.

No matter how aggressive the body kit of this Passat is, there's nothing that can prepare you for the slip angle might of the thing. So yes, we can call this contraption a sleeper.

P.S.: If you're the kind who prefers dipping into the entertainment potential of longer clips, we'll remind you that the footage we have here is part of a larger video. Released back in December last year, the Quantum Drift piece at the bottom of the page shows Tanner burning rubber in six different machines in plenty of locations.