Also known as Six-cylinder engines, V6 engine
piston engine with six cylinders in a "V" configuration
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Encyclopedic overview
Cutaway view of a V6 engine with dual overhead camshafts (DOHC) A typical DOHC V6 engine, represented in AngeTheGreat's Engine Simulator
A V6 engine is a six-cylinder piston engine where the cylinders and cylinder blocks share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “V6” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.