The history of the development of the VR6 engine

VR6 engine, can be regarded as the most special one in the Volkswagen engine system, and of course the general public as well as their original inline five-cylinder engine, V10, though not unique, is the world's leading power systems, the VR series As for the protagonistis called the wonderful unique in today's vehicle power system. VR6 engine widely used, have equipment from VAG's Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, and VR6-based variant products: W8 and W16 is the first choice of the Volkswagen Group's luxury brand of all models, showing that it was born for the general public series brand in recent years, progress has a role in fueling.
The VR6 engine is the mixture of the two layouts, but it still belongs to the V-shaped layout, just relatively extreme only. Volkswagen's VR6 There are two angle, 2.8L, 2.9L, 3.2L and VR5 is 15 ° and the late 3.6L to further narrowed to 10.6 °.

V is the VR6 V-shaped layout, R mean Reihenmotor, German inline cylinder layout mean that the two letters together, the explanation is somewhat contradictory V-line engine, the six would not have introduced six-cylinder. Named, can explain VR6 layout form is actually a variation of the structure between the V-type and inline benefits Needless to say, is to take a V6 short, narrow-line advantage, with a more extreme layout blend the two, of course, we will not VR6 included in the ranks of the inline six-cylinder, six cylinder does not in the same straight line, leading to the crankshaft structure different. It is another extreme form of the V-shaped layout, as the level of the other extreme to the engine is a V-shaped layout.