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Originally Posted by lumberjim
It's an '06 5.7 ltr.
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A 5.7 liter Chrysler engine was 60 hp/liter in the 2006 Chrysler 300 and Dodge Magnum. By the 1990s, that was an obsolete technology. A 5.7 liter engine in a 2006 Dodge Durango was less - only 59 Hp/liter.
Minimum for any gasoline car since 1992 was 70 Hp/liter. Another of so many reasons why no car needs a six or eight cylinder engine.
Higher performance engines also mean less pollution. Another problem with obsolete technology Hemis.
To make them noisier - so the naive wish it is a high performance muscle car - the 5.7 liter engine in the Dodge Charger was a pathetic 44 Hp/liter. More noise means it is burning more gas uselessly in the exhaust pipe - to enthrall the penis. Low performance (ie 44 Hp/liter) indicates a vehicle of less quality and shorter life expectancy. Crappy (noisier) engines also identify consumers easily brainwashed by myths and soundbytes. As if names such as Hemi, Mustang, or Camaro prove it is better.
A car built in the past 20 years with a V-8 is for consumers who are manipulated by soundbytes; will spend more for an inferior (obsolete technology) product. What was innovative in the 1960s was also obsolete technology by the 1980s. Hemi is a name from ancient history - when cars were being designed by engineers; not by bean counters.