Abstract: A water-cooled internal combustion engine with direct fuel injection and in hich the cylinders are arranged in banks forming the shape of a V, the V-shape space between the cylinder banks is adapted as a receiving chamber for combustion air and for the accommodation of means for fuel injection by individual pumps associated with each cylinder. The provision of a single camshaft is arranged parallel to the cylinder banks and centrally above the receiving chamber and in that the push rods of the inlet and exhaust valves as well as the individual pumps are directly driven by the camshaft.