It's made by Visteon - 84 21 6 987 546 02 with a manufacture date of 12 June 2006 so I guess it may even be 10th generation. I was reading a thread on X5 World some weeks ago where it was stated that the UK ULF had the VR disabled because it had a seperate VR module wheras the US module it was enabled because it was built in to the ULF. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation.