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Chrysler's 'Icon Engine' Makes Comeback.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003
The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 30--Once a legendary muscle-car motor, the new Hemi V8 will be a high-profile driver in the Chrysler Group's resurgence, powering everything from pickups to big sedans.
"It will be our icon engine," says Wolfgang Bernhard, chief operating officer of the Chrysler Group, a division of DaimlerChrysler AG that includes Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep.
"Hemi" refers to hemispherical combustion chambers. The combustion chamber is where gas and air are squeezed into an explosive charge by the piston. Many are triangular in shape. A true hemispherical combustion chamber looks like half of a ball and allows the engine to inhale more air and gas.
The former Chrysler Corp.'s first...
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