Imagine for a moment you're in charge of a major motorcycle manufacturer and are looking to siphon customers away from the Harley-Davidson Softail. You'd want to capture that classic cruiser look and ...

Based on the bones of Chrysler’s first-generation Hemi engine from 1951 to 1958, HOT ROD had a pretty good sense that the new version from 1964 was going to kick ass. Don’t get too excited, fellows, ...

The Hemi name is so tightly welded to Chrysler that it is easy to forget the combustion chamber shape itself is not proprietary hardware. While the company turned the hemispherical head into a ...

Think Hemis are just for Dodges? Think again!

Charting 70 years of Chrysler Hemi dominance at the track and on the street. While many manufacturers have toyed with building engines with hemispherical combustion chambers, only Chrysler (now ...

When you think of a hemi engine, it's almost certainly one of Chrysler's legendary HEMI V8s that comes to mind first. Depending on your age, it might be one of the classic HEMI variants from the '50s ...

Times are changing fast in the automotive industry. That shouldn't come as a shock for anyone who pays attention to what global car builders are up to. But if nothing else, a worldwide forced ...

Thanks to the original Mopar muscle cars from the ‘60s and ‘70s, as well as the Hellcat-powered beasts of today, the HEMI moniker has become almost synonymous with the American V8 engine all across ...

Close-up of valve covers on a Ford 427 "Cammer" engine - The Throttlestop/YouTube "HEMI" and "Chrysler" go together like a horse and carriage. Whether it's the early, first-generation FirePower HEMI ...

Fantastic sound. The smell of burnt rubber. Ridiculous power. Chrysler's HEMI V8 family had all of these traits since the first 331-cid (5.4-liter) FirePower unit entered production in 1951. The ...