The Volkswagen VR6 is a funky engine. The design is brilliant…it produces a six-cylinder engine that is compact enough to fit where a transverse four-banger once sat, offering up the power benefits with none of the usual drawbacks that come with shoehorning in a larger engine. But look at the actual layout: two offset banks of three cylinders each, with fifteen degrees of angle between the two offset rows, and listen to the difference in any VR6 car…the noise is one of the engine’s signatures. And apparently, they love boost. Or, at least, the ones that are tweaked at DonkeyTec in Germany do! 1320Video has been on a Germany tour, checking out speed shops that crank out beauties. The nice thing about this Corrado is that this isn’t forbidden fruit…hunt down a Corrado SLC in the States and you have the starting point. How you get to a 650 horsepower beast that doesn’t torque-steer to the point of insanity and can still cruise like a street car is up to you, though!
In Germany it is against the law to fit LS motors into any German car – so we get real imagination and skill used to make something good into something great.