Read this at autoweek.com, dated 8/30

"Volvo to reveal its first V8-powered wagon at January’s Detroit auto show
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"Volvo will reveal its first V8-powered wagon, likely to be called V90, in concept form at January’s Detroit auto show. Given Volvo’s recent record of putting concepts into production—the new XC90 off-roader was thinly disguised as the ACC concept, for instance—the go-ahead for the V90 is likely. An early 2005 on-sale date is penciled into Volvo’s product plans.

"Jaguar’s 4.0-liter V8 engine is the likely powerplant of choice. Volvo engineers evaluated the 4.6-liter Lincoln Town Car engine and other Ford V8s, but all were ruled out as insufficiently refined and too bulky to fit under the V90’s hood.

"Engineers have solved a major hurdle in shoehorning the Volvo-tweaked Jag V8 across the engine bay for Volvo’s transverse/front-drive installation, opening the door for V8-engined XC90s and S80s in the future"
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David (98 S70 T5SE Black, misc mods (mostly lighting), red calipers) (92 940GLE)

The Jag V8 is better known as the Lincoln LS V8. Couple of minor tweaks, but the same engine.

Minor tweaks ? the only thing that they have in common is that they both use the same crankshaft. everything else is different. i.e. different intake, camshaft etc.
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You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be - 2002 V70 stk, /w /tinted windows

WHAT ? NO MAZDA ENGINE, DAVID ,SURELY YOU MUST BE DISAPPOINTED (LOL)

Well, David you must be disappointed, here Ford had a chance to screw up a new Volvo model and here they go and put a JAGUAR ENGINE in a Volvo . sounds good to me, how about you ?
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You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be - 2002 V70 stk, /w /tinted windows

The growing mongrelization of the once-vaunted Volvo purebred anti-car. To bad this board doesn't have automatic emoticons. I'd use the one where the guy's laughing so hard he's crying. Or is it the other way around?
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David (98 S70 T5SE Black, misc mods (mostly lighting), red calipers) (92 940GLE)

First, THIS gets discontinued....http://www.geocities.com/cakennedy_98/bad_design.html, then THIS http://forums.vmag.com/suvexcursion0100/messages/1193.html and finally THIS http://www.klik.hr/naslovnica/auti/200203190002036.html almost makes me want to CRY!

-Punxsutawney Phil

The pictures are worth a thousand unintelligible words.
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David (98 S70 T5SE Black, misc mods (mostly lighting), red calipers) (92 940GLE)

Oh come on Phil, dry those eyes, chin up, hold your head high, it's not your fault. I know what your thinking... "what is the world coming to?". stop the insanity! Jaguar engines in Volvo's ? what's next ? Aston Martin V-12's in Volvo's? it's just insane I tell ya...insane! (LOL)
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You will never leave where you are until you decide where you would rather be - 2002 V70 stk, /w /tinted windows