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"         Point either the or Pontiac G8 GXP down the road. With a light touch on the brakes, run the revs up a bit. Slip off the brake and bury the throttle. There&amp;#039;s a light chirp as tires scratch for bite. Then comes a sub-5.0-second sled ride to 60 mph. A tick over 13.0 sec. and you&amp;#039;re through the quarter-mile. It&amp;#039;s a rush, of course, but not overly dramatic. Try the same thing with this pair&amp;#039;s predecessors of 1970 or so and you&amp;#039;ll find yourself in a bit of a wrestling match. Ain&amp;#039;t progress wonderful? Maybe yes, and maybe sometimes it&amp;#039;s fun to wrestle.   Just saying &amp;quot;Charger&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Hemi&amp;quot; will get you a free six-pack in some neighborhoods. And well it should, whether from a young driver loving his new Hemi or his old man (heck, maybe his old man&amp;#039;s old man) getting nostalgic about the original Hemis. It has been 58 years since the first hemispherical-combustion-chamber V-8.   Today&amp;#039;s Hemi isn&amp;#039;t as hemispherical as its ancestors and we miss those broad cylinder heads and their rocker covers. Still, the new Hemi is a powerful-looking piece, plastic panels with &amp;quot;HEMI 6.1L&amp;quot; hiding heads that sport ugly coil-on-plug electronics. Look beneath the cast-aluminum intake manifold and you&amp;#039;ll see the classic orange paint on the engine block.   The Charger&amp;#039;s aluminum fuel-injected V-8 puts out 425 bhp at 6200 rpm and 420 lb.-ft. of torque at 4800 rpm. That horsepower number matches the advertised output of the carbureted cast-iron 7.0-liter Hemi of the early 1970s. The modern Hemi, however, meets emissions and mileage standards thought impossible 35 years ago. Incidentally, Dodge does not use fuel-saving cylinder deactivation for the SRT8&amp;#039;s 6.1-liter V-8.   Just saying &amp;quot;small-block&amp;quot; brings to mind a fabled engine line, one that has produced over 90 million V-8s since 1955. It&amp;#039;s said there are only two constants in the universe, the speed of light and the bore centers of a small-block . The GXP&amp;#039;s LS3 V-8 is true to that tradition.   Displacing 6.2 liters in the GXP, the all-aluminum V-8 is rated at 415 for both horsepower (at 5900 rpm) and lb.-ft. torque (at 4600 rpm). Like the Hemi, the GXP LS3 doesn&amp;#039;t use cylinder deactivation.   While those GXP power numbers are impressive, you wouldn&amp;#039;t necessarily guess it when you lift the hood to face a plastic panel that hides the engine. This camouflage is pretty enough, but we miss seeing the actual hardware. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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