text: The advantages of the VG engine over its inline 6 predecessor was that its V6 configuration would have greater torsional rigidity for higher performance potential, and its shorter length would give Nissan designers and engineers more freedom for vehicle design, allowing for both more frontal crush zone space and transverse mounting for front-wheel-drive vehicles.
  All VG engines use a timing belt to synchronize the camshafts with the crankshaft rather than a timing chain. The VG series engine was put into thousands of Nissan vehicles, debuting in Japan in the 1983 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric, and in the US and other markets in the 1984 Nissan 300ZX.
  When the Nissan VQ engine was introduced in 1994, the VG engine was slowly phased out in Nissan cars, and after 2002 it was only available in the Nissan Frontier and Nissan Xterra. The VG engine was retired in 2004, by which time all V6-powered Nissans had switched to the VQ.
  VG20E
  The VG20E is a  SOHC engine produced from 1984 on. It produces between  and  net. In the earlier gross rating system, early eighties' models claim .
  Applications:
  1983–1987 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric Y30
  1987–1999 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric Wagon/Van Y30
  1986-1988 Nissan Bluebird Maxima U11
  1986-1992 Nissan Leopard F31
  1987–2002 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric Y31
  1991–1995 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric Y32
  1996–2002 Nissan Gloria/Nissan Cedric Y33
  1997-1999 Nissan Leopard JY33
  2000–2005 Hongqi Century Star - based on Hongqi CA7180 and 7202 Audi 100 based