How do you start a fight among a bunch of car nerds? Just ask if the VR6 is a V6 or an inline-six. For more than 30 years, Volkswagen’s ingenious shallow-bank-angle, single-head six-cylinder engine ...

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 ...

In the lates 80s, VW's engineers faced a conundrum. The product planning department expressed the need for a compact six-cylinder engine that could be squeezed into a front-wheel-drive car.

The Volkswagen Golf Mk3 is old news now. At 27 years, it’s probably the least liked Volkswagen in the world at the moment. The Golf Mk3 GTI suffered a similar fate in the ‘90s. It had become sensible ...

When it comes to tuning a car, more is usually better. Adding more fuel, more air, and more turbo boost are the typical methods of getting more power out of a car. But what about adding more engines?

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Next year marks 30 years since the introduction of the Golf VR6 - yes, really - and with it the creation of a new market sector: the premium hot hatch. Before the VR6 every hot hatch was about ...

VW fans may be falling in love with the Up! just in time to save this little rascal. The CEOs that once wanted to ax it have been silent recently. The Up! GTI with its affordable entry into the GTI ...