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Some people think the H4 was chosen due to lower CoG but that had little to do with it. The truth is there were a variety of reasons the H4 was chosen but the biggest ones were that Toyota wanted a low and long hood line for the appearance of the car and an I4 was difficult to fit due to current international pedestrian safety standards where an H4 made it easy. Also, Subaru was already developing a successor to the EJ engines which would later become the FA20 so that saved Toyota from developing a new engine as well.
I gotta say, Mazda managed some magic with the ND where the hood line of that car is basically the same as the twins despite it having an I4 but that engine is less sophisticated and makes less power so I think they were able to cut some corners to make things fit.
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