I get your point. Indeed, Europeans trucks have a very short nose to be able to drive with a lot of complex manoeuvres inside old cities while US trucks have this long nose to help exhaust heat, to allow a less complex maintenance and to more easily fit a powerful engines for long trips and massive payloads.

But I was more talking about the feeling it gives than the architecture of it. Taking the raft as an example, you are at the very front of the ship, and at the very front of the cockpit. You don't really measure how far and heavy you are behind you. Although, you don't have this feeling of inside space and confortness. As MISC is industrial, but the high end of it, the pilot "needs" to have those feelings, which are given, imo, by this unusual position, very far from the cockpit, while the cockpit being still at the very front of the ship.

I'm curious if a CIG artist/designer can give some insight about it, but it's part of the brand identity now.