Ram’s former and present CEO Tim Kuniskis loves the Hemi V-8. Point out it and he’ll wax poetic concerning the prompt torque, the Hellcat’s supercharger whine, and the music it makes when all eight cylinders are thundering. Now that he is again in combine, everybody needs to know the identical factor. When is the Hemi coming again?

On that entrance: an entire lot of optimism combined with a little bit of unhealthy information. Chatting with Motor1 on the 2025 Detroit Auto Present, Kuniskis did not affirm something. However he additionally informed us straight up that he is “not ruling it out.“

Pressed additional, Kuniskis defined the challenges in resurrecting the acquainted 5.7-liter Hemi V-8, the engine that he stated powered 85 p.c of half-ton Rams. The engine actually nonetheless suits beneath the hood—the truck’s bodily design did not change appreciably with the refresh. However its electrical programs have.

“Primary, the Hemi was by no means designed to run in that truck on {that electrical} structure, in order that’s an enormous problem,” he stated. “They shut down manufacturing on that exact Hemi, the eTorque. There’s provider work as a result of while you shut one thing down, suppliers shut down their meeting traces, they usually swap to one thing else.”

That is the unhealthy information, however even with that clarification, Kuniskis leaves the door large open for the Hemi’s return to the Ram 1500.

“Even should you stated let’s do it, we are able to’t do it instantly,” defined Kuniskis. “I did not say you may’t do it … you may’t do it instantly.”

With the standard-output 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged inline-six making 420 horsepower, a brand new Hemi choice would probably have an analogous output. Or, you may nix the half-ton pickup and get a brand new Ram HD the place the 405-hp 6.4-liter Hemi nonetheless exists.