Porsche has announced to launch the new 2011 Panamera with a V6 engine in the United States. Panamera is the only that comes with a V8 engine.

The new direct-injection V6 is a 3.6-liter with around 300 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. Helping keep the car on the road will be an all-wheel drive system available on the Panamera 4, or rear-wheel drive on the base model.

The base sedan will hit 60 miles per hour in 6.0 seconds, while all the wheel-drive version will do it in 5.8 seconds. Speed freaks can shave that time by 0.2 seconds by adding the Sport Chrono Package Plus option, which will be a lot of money.

The V6 Panamera will be able to get 18 miles per gallon city and 27 on the highway. It won’t be bad for a big fast German sedan. For the base model, the process will start at $74,400 and the Panamera 4 will be $78,900.

After launched in October last year, the super sedan that upset a lot of Porsche purists has sold over 4,000 units, and suspect that the V6 option will only help those sales numbers. The 2011 Porsche Panamera goes on sale this month in the U.S.