Volkswagen has retired its long-running VR6 engine, but it most notable appearances over the years were ironically not in ...

Volkswagen Group presented the first VR6 engine in 1991, with two offset cylinder banks ingeniously engineered to ensure it would comfortably fit in certain car models. It's a pretty complex ...

Here's where the name comes from and why the VR6 is slightly unusual. The "V" is taken from the angled arrangement of two banks of cylinders and pistons, as you'd find in an ordinary V-6 or V-8. The ...