Do please list those reasons!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 17:42, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Usually you have to take off the A/C compressor and the radiator to change it.
Also, because of the immigrants.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 17:57, Reply)

If it's like most other cars
it was designed to be easy and cheap to assemble, which means utterly impossible to work on easily afterwards unless you are some sort of orangutan / octopus hybrid with unusually shaped socket spanners for fingers.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 18:01, Reply)

In some fairness
it's also about fitting lots of things into the smallest possible space whilst still retaining function, too.

But about 60% what you said.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 18:06, Reply)

Yes
plus EU regs on protecting kamikaze pedestrians, etc.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 24 Oct 2012, 18:09, Reply)