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There are few things in this world that sound as glorious as VW’s VR6, especially when the application allows the engineers to open up the intake and exhaust a bit. (Imagine the hum of a inline-6 with more texture, more of the warble you associate with an inline-5).

The VR has only gotten more melodious with its extra cams and displacement, not to mention the cylinder filling made possible by variable valve timing. In fact with open piped dual exhaust the last R32 sounded so good we found ourselves driving with the window down at temeratures below-freezing.

The next R sounds even edgier – click here for an earful.

(The US market car’s extra displacement should only intensify the experience).

This entry was posted on Friday, December 2nd, 2005 at 8:15 pm and is filed under Volkswagen, technical.