Have engine identifications changed in general?

It used to be when I was growing up, engines were identified

by a cubic inch (maybe that's not the right term). There were

318 dodges, 340 mopar, 351 fords, 283 chevys, and so on.

It seems that now days, engines are identified in terms of liters.

I miss the traditional classification of engines. Did it disappear?Have engine identifications changed in general?
They're pretty much gone. In the early 80's it seemed like everybody went metric. Mustangs and Camaros got "5.0's" instead of of 302's and 305's, even though they were pretty much the same old engines. The Ford 300 sixes became 4.9's and the 351W's became 5.8's about 1980 even though neither engine changed at all.

These days when you say a "440" or something everybody knows you're referring to a vintage engine or you're just an old fart set in his ways.

The earliest Ford (I'm kind of a Ford guy) that I know of that was referred to in Metric were the 63 or so Galaxies that had "7.0" on the fenders instead of "427" emblems on the fenders. I imagine there were a lot of folks back then scratching their heads for a while over that. These days putting "427" designation on the newest hot Corvette would likely only confuse the new generation. Sigh.Have engine identifications changed in general?
yup Id rather say the cubes not the liters

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