The Veloster is seriously snouty, a consequence of it being a front-drive car with a transverse-mounted engine (the Veloster is very much a mechanical clone of the new Elantra, complete with torsion-beam rear suspension).
In Kent's aorta model most of the tears are transverse, or across the artery, in a section called the isthmus, and they start on the intima, or the inner layer of the aorta.
As engineered products, Moto Guzzis are handcuffed to the brand's distinctive and distinctly questionable transverse 90-degree V-twin engine, a configuration that reaches back to the 1960s.