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Originally Posted by Vansquish The XC90 has no Yamaha V8. The V8 that is currently in use in the Volvo XC90 is the same basic unit as the AJV8 in the Jaguar S/XJ/XK and also currently in use in the LR3 and Range Rover. The last Yamaha/Ford collaboration was the 3.4L V8 unit in the Taurus SHO. While it was a tuneful and relatively spunky engine, there's no reason that it should be put back into production. It was underpowered for the Taurus, 235bhp was nowhere near enough to tow that barge, and thirsty, the best mileage we ever got in our car was about 19 mpg, think about that for a moment...19mpg, and that's on the non-imperial gallon, i.e. only 4 quarts to the gallon, not 5. It had terrible range, a rather atrocious ride and handled...well...like a big wallowy car with extremely stiff springs and a big heavy engine in the nose. If any V8 is going to find its way into the Fusion/Zephyr/Mazda6, then it had better be longitudinally-mounted, rear or 4wd, and the engine should probably be some version of the AJV8...probably the 3.5L unit that Jag uses in its low-level XJs.

yea that last SHO v8 taurus was pretty crappy, i dont think it was faster with the v8 anyways compared to the previos high output v6 they had because of the weight and also there was no manual transmission for it.