To U.S. enthusiasts, the VR6 has kind of been dead for a while. The last VW sold here with a VR6 was the 2023 Atlas mid-size SUV, where the application was a 3.6-liter producing 276 horsepower and ...

Anything that lasts several decades in the automotive world is an impressive accomplishment, but not everything can last forever. 2024 saw the true end of production for the Volkswagen VR6 engine ...

I still remember my first experience with a Volkswagen VR6 engine. My brother had a Mk3 VW GTI with a 2.8-liter VR6 and five-speed manual. It was quicker than my E36 BMW 328i, with its own 2.8 ...

I still remember my first experience with a Volkswagen VR6 engine. My brother had a Mk3 VW GTI with a 2.8-liter VR6 and ...

The VR6 powered the last camper van sold in the U.S., too. The next camper van? Not so much. One of many VW VR6s I’ve driven. Aaron Cole The VR6 could be found in the snouts of a Passat (I ...

The last place one would expect to find devotion ... compromises in combustion-chamber and port designs. Even within VW, the VR6 is gradually giving ground to the turbocharged 2.0T four-cylinder ...

It was the last hurrah of the VR6 in this part of ... Although Schleith does not mention it, Volkswagen's final VR6 was – most likely – a 2.5 for a Chinese-market application.

Volkswagen communications manager Andreas Schleith broke the news via a post on LinkedIn. He recalled seeing the VR6 engine for the first time when the VR6-powered Golf made its debut at the ...

The VR6 engine enjoys legendary status among many South African Volkswagen fans, and is best known for powering the flagship Golf and Jetta models in the 1990s. The VR6 powered a wide variety of ...

Perhaps the biggest surprise about the recent admission by Thomas Schafer, VW CEO, that there aren’t many ICE-engined VWs launches left (the next T-Roc in 2025 is penciled in as the last ...

In a post on LinkedIn, Volkswagen communications manager Andreas Schleith announced the sad news that every water-cooled VW ...

The VR6 probably doesn't fit into Volkswagen's electrification plans, and emissions will become an issue worldwide, so we don't expect it to last long in other markets, either.