Porsche Panamera V6 joins the four-door range

By Matt Brogan | February 17th, 2010

In a bid to compete at a lower price point, and to meet increasingly strict emissions standards, Porsche has announced today that it plans to introduce two V6-powered versions of its sporty four-door Panamera model at April’s Beijing Motor Show.

To be offered in rear- and all-wheel drive variants, the Panamera V6 will feature a 3.6-litre direct injection petrol engine developing 224kW of power and 400Nm of torque.

The six-cylinder unit will be mated exclusively to Porsche’s seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and will also feature Stop-Start technology to reduce the combined avarage fuel consumption figure to around 9.4L/100km for the rear-wheel drive model and 9.8L/100km for the all-wheeler.

The lower-emissions powertrain also helps the Panamera V6 achieve LEV standards.

Further specification and pricing information will be released closer to the Panamera V6 launch later this year.

Joker

I’m at a loss, Porsche moving to a V6 in the Panamera?
The flat six is the Maker’s trademark engine…surely they would attempt to engineer a more economical version of this engine as opposed to a V6?
Credit though, that’s a very good amount of power/torque from a V6.

The Oracle’s Teacher

Not by Porsche standards it isn’t .Nissan get over 200kw out of theirs. I’d expect better from Porsche to be honest.

http://www.insidetorque.com IT

Oracle,
The Porsche is also over 200KW. Nissan milks 245KW out of the 370Z’s N/A 3.7L V6 but only 363NM. Porsche has obviously gone for higher torque (being a bigger car and all) and 400NM is pretty impressive for an N/A V6 with only 3.6L displacement.
But all that aside, what’s a V6 doing in a Porsche – ugly or otherwise?
-IT

The Oracle

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hundi stroker

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Baddass

Is the hybrid planned for this year?
Shak

Ok name stealing aside, what is a V6 doing in a real Porsche(Cayenne is an Audi/VW).

spellbound

Well maybe the fact that VAG has a substantial share holding in porsche may have some part to play , however lifting the bonnet on a flat six may not do it for some , wheres me mota .

Shak

I meant it in a metaphorical sense. Porsche’s should not have V6′s even the fake ones.

HyundaiSmoke

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Source:

New York Times Study on Political Affiliations and what you drive.

hundi stroker

This is about porsche , a real mans car , not a tin box with buck teeth fan boy .

HyundaiSmoke

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AAA

Would it be faster than a Tarago V6? Coz the Porsche Cayenne V6 is slower than the Tarago V6 as tested by Drive ~

Ryan Bane

well if a Tarago can do 0-100kph in the low to mid 6 seconds than no ;0)

Be interesting to see where Porsche price the hybrid version of the V6, although suspect it will be aligned (or even above) with the V8 versions.

In UK the V6 isnt that much cheaper than the base V8, hard to see why youd bother considering the V6 if you are already spending north of A$150k.

More worrying is that in europe you can spec the V6 to have low resistance eco tyres (saves 5g CO2), “man made” climate change proponents have a lot to answer for!