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The VR5 engines are a family of Internal combustion engines developed by the Volkswagen Group and produced from 1997 to 2006. They are derived from the VR6 engine family, also developed by Volkswagen, but with one fewer cylinders. The VR5 is highly compact, thanks to the narrower angle of 15° and a displacement of 2,324 cc. The VR5 was the first production block to use five cylinders in a VR design with a 15-degree angle.
A VR5 engine block houses two staggered rows of cylinders within a single, short and wide bank – one row of two cylinders and the other having three. This narrow-angle, single bank block makes the five cylinder engine as short as an inline three cylinder, while also having single inlet and exhaust manifolds. In a transverse layout the three-cylinder row is located towards the front, and in a longitudinal layout towards the right. Due to the narrow bank-angle of the two cylinder rows, the arrangement works as a zig-zag staggered, W-patterned inline five-cylinder. The engines have a firing order of 1-2-4-5-3....