Dear friends, can you leave the “principle” or rather the rule of thumb so that V-engines are always more unfriendly and complex than in-line engines? If I look at the engine compartment in which a V-engine sits, even if it is only a “small” 2.4L, then this is so crowded. It looks like I have to disassemble half the car just to get to a throttle valve or similar banal things. If I imagine my 1.6L in the VW Touran, I can sink my arm up to the shoulder into the engine compartment. If I remember my 1.2L Sandero, I could have put myself in the engine compartment next to the engine (extremely said). In addition, the V-engine contains many expensive elements twice like camshafts, cylinder head seals, valve covers etc. But also counter examples are quite available. In the E39 5 BMW, there was hardly any space between all the components to work. Whereas the Americans swore on the old V8 engines as “any farmer who has no two left hands can work on the thing”. Where the space ratio in an old 70s giant Ami is different than in a densely packed Audi A4 with a 4.2L V8 Can the thumb rule listed above be so standing or is it always dependent on the individual case?