In 1997, on a Shinkansen bullet train running between Tokyo and Nagoya, then-Volkswagen AG CEO Ferdinand Piëch grabbed an envelope and sketched an engine that had been on his mind for a while. He had just finished talking with Karl-Heinz Neumann, the automaker’s head of powertrain development, about the VR6, Volkswagen’s narrow-angle six-cylinder engine, compact enough to fit transversely even in a Golf.
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