Quattroformaggio
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I didn’t say it wasn’t a V, what I said was that your if your logic about an R1 engine not being an inline 4 because it sits across the frame is correct then a V with a cylinder in the horizontal plane must be an L.
By the way, its still an inline engine whatever way it’s mounted.
I don't know why I'm bothering to reply, even though I'm getting paid to do so, but you're incorrect.
It's not "Still an inline engine whatever way it's mounted" because as I said in my initial post that DESPITE THE CYLINDERS BEING IN LINE WITH EACH OTHER, that engine is incorrectly referred to as an inline engine because the cylinder orientation against the frame makes it TRANSVERSE.
Even if the engine cases are in line with the frame, if the cylinders lie across or either side, it's transverse.
Turn your journo hip speak "L twin" around a few degrees and it's no longer an L, is it, but it's always a 90 degree V.
A longitudinal 90 degree vee at that.
Like I said, it's not just coming from me, that's how it is.
I-4 and L twin is just fairly recent journalistic and blog type trendy speak.