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The B280 is the 2,849 cc with LH-Jetronic electronic injection of the Volvo 760 and 780: 156 bhp, E or F depending on the market. Despite the divorce from Renault pronounced in 1992, the PRV kept powering Volvo saloons until 1997 — and the last one to carry it is little known: the 960, on the Japanese and Australian markets only.
After the 260s and their mechanical CI injection, the 700 series goes electronic: the LH-Jetronic B280, 156 bhp, in the 760 and then in the Bertone-designed 780 coupé. The 740, for its part, never received the V6: the 760's four-cylinder sister, it shares its body and platform, never the PRV.
When the 960 replaced the 760 in 1990, most markets received Volvo's brand-new aluminium 24-valve straight-six — which is not a PRV. Japan and Australia are the exception: their first 960s kept the B280 V6. The Japanese type approval names the engine in the car's very type code, E-9B280 — SOHC V6, 2,848 cc, 145 bhp, on sale from September 1990; Australia quotes the 1991 960 GLE at 2,849 cc, 108 kW at 5,100 rpm and 235 Nm at 3,750. The Volvo 960 file tells this end of career.
Figures read in the constructor's documents held in our Library — repair manuals, Pub et Trade data sheets, period bulletins. Nothing here comes from a web fact sheet.
Two letters by market, and a Japanese type code that names the engine — the full code table is on the Engines page.
The 700 series saloon: the 156 bhp B280 — never the 740, its four-cylinder sister.
The Bertone coupé: the same B280 as the 760, 156 bhp.
The last PRV Volvo, in Japan and Australia only: type E-9B280, 145 bhp.
Answers taken from our FAQ, each one read in the Library. The full FAQ holds several hundred more, engine code by engine code.
No document specific to the B280 is in the Library yet; the 260 manual is its closest relative — Volvo B27 / B28 — repair and maintenance (the 260s)
Architecture, generations and every known engine code of the PRV V6 — on the main Engines page.