Yes, but there's also an element of pervase incentive related to safety adding to it. There was an additional regulation put in some time ago regarding hood des

Yes, but there's also an element of pervase incentive related to safety adding to it. There was an additional regulation put in some time ago regarding hood design, such that pedestrians have a crumple zone above the engine block. The correct way to solve this was mount the engine lower and slope the hood more, but auto manufacturers decided to just jack up the whole frontal facade instead, defeating the whole purpose. I'm not arguing against having this regulation btw, there are worse out there, it's just interesting is all