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The spark-ignition petrol (gasoline) engines listed below were formerly used in various marques of automobiles and commercial vehicles of the German automotive business Volkswagen Group [1] and also in Volkswagen Industrial Motor applications, but are now discontinued.
Volkswagen Group W12 engine. This W12 badged W12 engine is a twelve cylinder W engine of four rows of three cylinders, formed by joining two imaginary 15° VR6 engine cylinder blocks, placed on a single crankshaft, with each cylinder 'double-bank' now at
[3] The first application of the Volkswagen W12 was the 2001 Volkswagen W12, a mid-engined concept car which set the 24‑hour world endurance record in 2001 with a distance of 7,085.7 kilometres (4,402.8 mi) and an average speed of 295 km/h (183 mph). The first production car to use the W12 engine was the 2001 Audi A8 (D2). [4]
3.2-litre VR6 24v, 184 kW (250 PS; 247 hp) — 2006–present Volkswagen Eos, Golf Mk5 R32, Audi MK1/MK2 TT 3.2 ID code- BHK, BHL, BLV 3.6-litre FSI VR6 24v , 206 kW (280 PS; 276 hp) — 2005–present Volkswagen Passat B6 (with Fuel Stratified Injection )
List of discontinued Volkswagen Group diesel engines.The compression-ignition diesel engines listed below were formerly used by various marques of automobiles and commercial vehicles of the German automotive concern, Volkswagen Group, [1] and also in Volkswagen Marine [2] and Volkswagen Industrial Motor [3] applications, but are now discontinued.
A W12 engine is a twelve-cylinder piston engine where either three banks of four cylinders, or four banks of three cylinders are arranged in a W configuration around a common crankshaft. W12 engines with three banks of four cylinders were used by several aircraft engines from 1917 until the 1930s.
The Q7 3.0 TDI clean diesel is a version of the 3.0 V6 TDI with selective catalytic reduction. The engine was later used in the next generation of the Q7 for the European market. The 3.0-litre TDI S line can accelerate from 0–60 mph (0–97 km/h) in 8.4 seconds and has a top speed of 134 mph (216 km/h). [34]
Rocchi's W12 plans dated back to a 1967 single-module W3 of 500 cc (31 cu in) as a prototype for a 3-litre W18 Ferrari engine of a planned 480 hp. [1] After his dismissal in 1980, Rocchi worked privately on an engine in a W12 configuration. Life W12 engine on display at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2009