My dad always like the biggest small blocks - they were the most efficient use of materials and were priced as such. While gas mileage wasn't good, it wasn't horrendous as it was with the big blocks. So, I shared his enthusiasm, all the more so getting my mechanical engineering degree, that app. 400 c.i.d. V8's were the 'ultimate' engine for most of my moderate-load uses. Even with all the changes in technology and emissions, it still hold true to me.
God knows it would cost an arm and a leg fueling the old 440 big block today! I guess my point is the Hemi doesn't do anything for me literally, and figuratively. It's just marketing crap. And you really gotta watch it boosting sparkies since we all expect 200,000+ miles out of them today.
If diesels didn't have to have all the exhaust aftertreatment crap, I might have kept buying them.