Rear side of a Ford V6 engine, looking at the clutch housing on the flywheel

The same basic engine block can be used with different crankshafts, however, to alter the firing order ; for instance, the 90 ° V6 engine configuration, in older days sometimes derived by using six cylinders of a V8 engine with what is basically a shortened version of the V8 crankshaft, produces an engine with an inherent pulsation in the power flow due to the " missing " two cylinders.

In 1960 DKW developed a V6 engine by combining two three cylinder two-stroke engines giving a single V6 engine with a capacity of 1, 000 cc.

About 100 V6 engines were built for testing purposes and 13 DKW F102 as well as some Mungas were fitted with the V6 engine in the 1960s.

A V6 internal combustion engine from a Mercedes ( car ) | Mercedes car

The final phase of the Commodore's recovery strategy involved the 1988 VN, a significantly wider model powered by the American-designed, Australian-assembled 3. 8-litre Buick V6 engine.

The Buick-sourced V6 engine, produced locally, powered the Commodore range, as did the 5. 0-litre Holden V8 engine, replaced in 1999 by the 5. 7-litre LS unit.

Though the Millenia ( and its Miller-type V6 engine ) were discontinued in 2002, the company has recently introduced a much smaller Miller-cycle four-cylinder engine for use in itsDemio starting in 2008.

A V6, 24-valve, DOHC engine ( Nissan VR38 engine )

The V6 is one of the most compact engine configurations, shorter than the inline-4 and in many designs narrower than the V8.

Owing to its compact length, the V6 lends itself well to the widely-used transverse engine front-wheel drive layout.

The V6 engine has become widely adopted for medium-sized cars, often as an optional engine where an inline-4 is standard, or as a base engine where a V8 is a higher-cost performance option.

Although it is more complicated and not as smooth as the inline-6, the V6 is more rigid for a given weight, more compact and less prone to torsional vibrations in the crankshaft for a given displacement.

Recent forced induction V6 engines have delivered horsepower and torque output comparable to contemporary larger displacement, naturally aspirated V8 engines, while reducing fuel consumption and emissions, such as the Volkswagen Group's 3. 0 TFSI which is supercharged and directly injected, and Ford Motor Company's turbocharged and directly injected EcoBoost V6, both of which have been compared to Volkswagen's 4. 2 V8 engine.

Therefore, designing a smooth V6 engine is a much more complicated problem than the straight-6, flat-6, and V8 layouts.

An odd-fire V6, on the other hand, shows highly irregular torque variations of 200 % above and 175 % below mean torque, which is significantly worse than an even-fire V6, and in addition the power delivery shows large harmonic vibrations that have been known to destroy the dynamometer.

The most efficient cylinder bank angle for a V6 is 60 degrees, minimizing size and vibration.

Although it is relatively easy to derive a 90 ° V6 from an existing V8 design by simply cutting two cylinders off the engine, this tends to make it wider and more vibration-prone than a 60 ° V6.

However, unlike the crossplane crankshaft V8, there is no way to arrange a V6 so that unbalanced forces from the two cylinder banks will completely cancel each other.

By comparison, the 180 ° flat-6 boxer engine is only moderately wider than the 120 ° V6, and unlike the V6 is a fully balanced configuration with no vibration problems, so it is more commonly used in aircraft and in sports / luxury cars where space is not a constraint and smoothness is important.

90 ° V6 engines are also produced, usually so they can use the same production-line tooling set up to produce V8 engines ( which normally have a 90 ° V angle ).

Many older V6 engines were based on V8 engine designs, in which a pair of cylinders was cut off the front of V8 without altering the V angle or using a more sophisticated crankshaft to even out the firing interval.

The vertical roads were given names ending in ' street ' and V numbers ( for vertical ', e. g. V6 Grafton Street ).

Since the length of an engine is roughly proportional to the number of cylinders in one bank ( plus the width of one connecting rod in a " V " engine ), the straight-six is necessarily longer than alternative layouts such as L4, V6, or V8.

The Mark V range was introduced early in 1980, a range that featured 1. 6 base, 2. 0 L, 2. 0 GL, 2. 0 Ghia, 2. 3 V6 Ghia, and wagon variants for the 1. 6 base and 2. 0 L. In 1982 the 2. 0 GL model was discontinued and replaced with a 2. 0 S ( Sport ) model, and unlike in the UK, it was a model in its own right.

The Mk IV range was launched, not at an October motorshow, but in the Spring of 1966 with new V format engines, the 4 having a V4 and the 6 a V6 unit.

V engines ( V6 or V8 ) use two angled cylinder banks.

In common with other V4 and V6 engines, but unlike longer V engines with more cylinders, the connecting rods do not share a crankpin on the crankshaft.

In engines which have more than one bank of cylinders ( i. e. V6, V8 — where two cylinder banks meet to form a ' V ') with two camshafts in total, but they remain SOHC ; unless each cylinder bank has two camshafts — these latter are DOHC, and are often known as ' quad cam '.

Unlike the British Essex V6, the Canadian Essex used a 90 ° V configuration, in addition to having different displacements and valvetrains.

The V6 utilizes a 60 ° V configuration.

Lancia pioneered the V engine design, producing the first V6 as well as the first V4s.

V6 commonly refers to a V6 engine, a V engine with six cylinders in two banks of three

Music Champ, the group stated that the " V " in V6 also stood for " Versus " ( 20th Century versus Coming Century ) at first.

International Formula 3000 was experiencing tough competition with cheaper formulae, such as European F3000 ( using ex-FIA 1999 and 2002 Lola chassis ), World Series by Nissan ( also known as Formula Nissan ) and Formula Renault V6 Eurocup.

V6 engines are rare due to the increased fuel consumption of larger engines being considered unacceptable with high fuel prices.

The first series production V6 was introduced by Lancia in 1950 with the Lancia Aurelia.

1962 saw the introduction of the Buick Special, which offered a 90 ° V6 with uneven firing intervals that shared some parts commonality with a small Buick V8 of the period.

In 1983, Nissan produced Japan's first V6 engine with the VG series.

At mating, the angle between the banks and the angle between the crankshafts can be varied so that the balancer shafts cancel each other 90 ° V6 ( larger counter weights ) and the even firing 60 ° V6 with 60 ° flying arms ( smaller counter weights.

A simple 90 ° V6 with crankshaft counterweights achieves good balance for similar reasons, although the uneven firing intervals will be perceived as roughness at low RPM, making this an unpopular solution.

When Buick designed a 90 ° V6 based on their 90 ° V8, they initially used a simpler three-throw crankshaft laid out in the same manner as the V8 with pairs of connecting rods sharing the same crankpin, which resulted in firing intervals alternating between 90 ° and 150 °.

Comparing engines on the dynamometer, a typical even-fire V6 shows instantaneous torque peaks of 150 % above mean torque and valleys of 125 % below mean torque, with a small amount of negative torque ( engine torque reversals ) between power strokes.

More modern 90 ° V6 engine designs avoid these vibration problems by using crankshafts with offset split crankpins to make the firing intervals even, and often add balancing shafts to eliminate the other vibration problems.

These range from 2 -, 3-and 4-cylinder models generating 15 to 135 horsepower suitable for hulls up to in length, to powerful V6 and V8 cylinder blocks rated up to., with sufficient power to be used on boats of or longer.

For the villains ' cars, Lantieri selected a 1914 Ford Model T, a 1919 Ford Model T truck and a 1916 Saxon Model 14, fitting each with a Ford Pinto V6 engine.