I'll say I agree with you on the confusion for us long-time Volvo owners. I honestly don't know the current engine line-up. Life was SO simple way back when.

 

Yes it was much simpler. Former Volvo owners want to simply connect the dots; "I owned a 2.5T or T5 in the past, what is that now?"

This should be a very straightforward discussion and not require a road map. To make it worse, the current T5 (a 2.0 litre mild turbo 4 cylinder) is nothing like the former T5 (a 2.5 litre hot rod 5 cylinder)
Potential Volvo owners are also missing out, because they have no idea Volvo offers turbo, supercharging and hybrid all on the same engine in a singular car.

Repurposing the former engine acronymns isn't serving Volvo very well.

 

Your proposed naming scheme works really well until they roll out the T6 Twin Engine =) Which would also be a 'T4 TSH' under your naming, but less powerful than the T8. That's supposed to be coming soon-ish, on the V60, though only in Europe? And the T5 Twin Engine whenever it hits, would be... T3 TH?

I'm newer to Volvo, so have only been paying attention to the current naming scheme. I didn't find it very hard to figure out. Bigger number = more total power. I can see how its really confusing that they are reusing terminology that had meaning previously though, so likely only difficult for those of you who have owned them for longer.

 

Ya know, once upon a time the actual model names told you what it was and powered by....

245t -200 series, 4 cylinder, 5 door (wagon), turbo charger.

964 - 900 series, 6 cylinder, 4 doors

That's why some of the more in the know crew calls anything through 1997 by the full name (855T for instance) so saying turbo wagon is redundant.

The switch to S/V/C70 and then 40/60/80/90 series comes from trying to seem modern.

Bringing back that kind of naming would be superb.

Current spa xc90 T8?

That's a 945 XC TC-E (twin charged electric)

V60 with the T3?

635T

Except that's more confusing.

Just bring back the 5 and 6 cylinders errrr actually just put them in the spa cars they're still in production in China in the XC90 "classic"

I'll just leave this one here:

 

Love the pic and the tailpipes...

Does the 7 4 0 convention have a logic to it; it a 5 door and likely not 4 cylinders?

 

Never was badged original as a 745.

That's an actual 740 wagon with a 4 cylinder but 850 and V70R conversion cosmetics ect. Check it out on turbobricks

 

T4TSHP* Ugh, what a mess. Might need a wider car!

 

Check out the 2019 Volvo VIN decoder; field 4 & 5. It is actually using pretty much the nomenclature that I was speculating about above:

https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/mid/home/displayfile/c428dbd5-42ec-49c1-a3e9-2849b9b2afd9