While we're on the subject of vehicles, old versus new, the naming of such, etc, I'd like for the following question to be properly answered in the really annoying commercials I see on TV.
"Hey, that thang got a hemi?"
"
No, actually it doesn't. "
Lee assured me no deception is afoot. The engineers responsible for Chrysler's new engine had better intentions than merely dusting off Hemis in the back of their closet. Early in the research phase, they discovered a combustion chamber that Porsche used for 1965-97 air-cooled 911s offered the ideal starting point for their new design. Porsche's head happened to be a hemi.
Engineers are not about to leave well enough alone so little from the Porsche design made the long trip to what's now called the 5.7-liter Hemi Magnum V-8.
This would be called "false advertising" in my book.