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Originally Posted by jcyuhn
One additional thing that I think could have played into the decision to build a v6 is the Euro pedestrian crash safety standards. Meeting these typically requires a car have 5 or 6 inches of open space below the hood before meeting the first hard parts of the engine. This would seem much easier to achieve on a wide angle v6 than an inline engine.
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Interesting, did not know of this!