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"There has been an advance by Volkswagen Group to combine the advantages of both configurations in an engine called VR6 (V to indicate the V shape and R for "Reihenmotor" (German for straight engine)). This was pretty much a V engine with a very narrow cylinder angle (15 degree), which allowed to combine the smaller size of the V6 engine with the smoother run of the straight-6. "
I don't if it should stay here this is a little bit out-of-topic. And VW makes very good marketing job. Lancia made narrow-angle V-engines before the WWII and continued until the seventies. Ericd 22:26 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)
What is the rule for counting the cylinders- is #1 on the front or the rear of the engine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.106.90 ( talk) 11:22, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
"Cylinders are numbered starting with number one at the very front of the engine. The front of the engine is the end with the crankshaft pulley and accessory drive belt(s)." – Dorries, Elisabeth H. (Dec 1, 2004). "Section 2 Engine Operation and Support Systems". TechOne: Automotive Engine Repair. Cengage Learning. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-40185-941-1.
Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 14:03, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
With all the battles going on about naming at straight-two engine (where the only consensus is that "straignt-two engine" is not the right name for the article) and straight-three engine (where there is currently no consensus at all), it occurs to me that the terms "straight" and "inline" in referring to an engine with only one cylinder bank need further scrutiny.
The following is mostly my conjecture, please feel free to correct me where I am wrong:
How do we deal with this situation of popular use against ambiguity, especially with regard to the naming of articles for engines of this type with specific numbers of cylinders, such as the two mentioned earlier?
Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 14:03, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Ambiguity like this is quite common. Our job is not to resolve it but to describe it.
It's no different than V-twin engine#Orientations. Different sources use the terminology differently, and unless they are explicit, you can't assume. Wikipedia should avoid the ambiguity by never assuming "transverse" refers to the crankshaft or cylinders; we have to spell it out. We can't assume parallel means any straight two or a specific orientation; we have to say it. WP:PSTS says we should lean towards tertiary sources, like compendia when source don't agree: "Reliably published tertiary sources can be helpful in providing broad summaries of topics that involve many primary and secondary sources, especially when those sources contradict each other." -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 15:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
The article is missing marine engines that, due to their modular construction, have some 'interesting' configurations like straight-nine engine. -- Sivullinen ( talk) 01:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
I'm late to this conversation but what seems to be the accepted way of referring to this engine configuration on Wikipedia has been bugging me. I could not find any other publication that formally refers to inline engines as "straight engines," and I think it would be nice to see this article, as well as the rest of the family of articles that refer to specific permutations of inline engines, move to terminology that is in line (no pun intended) with the actual industries they're describing. Cuyamas ( talk) 04:03, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
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"There has been an advance by Volkswagen Group to combine the advantages of both configurations in an engine called VR6 (V to indicate the V shape and R for "Reihenmotor" (German for straight engine)). This was pretty much a V engine with a very narrow cylinder angle (15 degree), which allowed to combine the smaller size of the V6 engine with the smoother run of the straight-6. "
I don't if it should stay here this is a little bit out-of-topic. And VW makes very good marketing job. Lancia made narrow-angle V-engines before the WWII and continued until the seventies. Ericd 22:26 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)
What is the rule for counting the cylinders- is #1 on the front or the rear of the engine? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.106.90 ( talk) 11:22, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
"Cylinders are numbered starting with number one at the very front of the engine. The front of the engine is the end with the crankshaft pulley and accessory drive belt(s)." – Dorries, Elisabeth H. (Dec 1, 2004). "Section 2 Engine Operation and Support Systems". TechOne: Automotive Engine Repair. Cengage Learning. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-40185-941-1.
Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 14:03, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
With all the battles going on about naming at straight-two engine (where the only consensus is that "straignt-two engine" is not the right name for the article) and straight-three engine (where there is currently no consensus at all), it occurs to me that the terms "straight" and "inline" in referring to an engine with only one cylinder bank need further scrutiny.
The following is mostly my conjecture, please feel free to correct me where I am wrong:
How do we deal with this situation of popular use against ambiguity, especially with regard to the naming of articles for engines of this type with specific numbers of cylinders, such as the two mentioned earlier?
Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 14:03, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
Ambiguity like this is quite common. Our job is not to resolve it but to describe it.
It's no different than V-twin engine#Orientations. Different sources use the terminology differently, and unless they are explicit, you can't assume. Wikipedia should avoid the ambiguity by never assuming "transverse" refers to the crankshaft or cylinders; we have to spell it out. We can't assume parallel means any straight two or a specific orientation; we have to say it. WP:PSTS says we should lean towards tertiary sources, like compendia when source don't agree: "Reliably published tertiary sources can be helpful in providing broad summaries of topics that involve many primary and secondary sources, especially when those sources contradict each other." -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 15:53, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
The article is missing marine engines that, due to their modular construction, have some 'interesting' configurations like straight-nine engine. -- Sivullinen ( talk) 01:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
I'm late to this conversation but what seems to be the accepted way of referring to this engine configuration on Wikipedia has been bugging me. I could not find any other publication that formally refers to inline engines as "straight engines," and I think it would be nice to see this article, as well as the rest of the family of articles that refer to specific permutations of inline engines, move to terminology that is in line (no pun intended) with the actual industries they're describing. Cuyamas ( talk) 04:03, 17 November 2023 (UTC)