Volvo B8444S engine

The Volvo B8444S is a 4.4 litre, naturally aspirated, 60 degree aluminium V8 petrol engine that Yamaha built in Japan for Volvo Cars. Volvo offered it from 2005, first in the XC90 and later in the second generation S80, where it drove through a six speed Aisin automatic and Haldex all-wheel drive. It makes 315 PS (232 kW) and 440 newton metres, and shares its Yamaha origin, transverse layout and bank angle with the Ford SHO V8 engine. Offset crank journals keep a 90 degree firing interval, and it was the first V8 to meet the ULEV II emissions standard. Volvo dropped it in 2010, but the block lived on in the Noble M600 and in Yamaha's F300 and F350 outboards.