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MODELS (264·265·262C·760·780)
The very first PRV ever fitted under a bonnet went into a Volvo 264, in October 1974. From the 260 series to the 760 and the 780, Volvo's saloons and coupés carried the V6 until 1997 — five years after the divorce from Renault.
The pioneer series: B27A carburettor (125 bhp), then K-Jetronic injection up to the 155 bhp B28E of the 264 and 265. The 262C coupé took the carburetted B28A (126 bhp).
The 1980s flagship moved to the B280 with LH-Jetronic injection — 156 bhp.
The elegant coupé of the range, powered by the same 156 bhp B280.
Stretched 70 cm and bodied by Bertone, the 264 TE became the official car of East German leadership — Erich Honecker rode in its back seat. The full story is in Pop culture.
Where Douvrin engines wear Z-codes, Volvo used its own nomenclature. All eight variants — from the B27A to the B280 F — are detailed in the B-codes file.
Despite the divorce from Renault pronounced in 1992, the PRV soldiered on in Volvo's saloons until 1997 — the closing chapter of the story told in History.
B27, B28, B280 : all eight variants, code by code.