Just got back from Land Rover training in GA.
The Jaguar training center is in the same building. Just so happened to be new model training on this new V6.
So, sneaked over and took some photos.
It does have a "V8" block, but the crank is a V6 crank. There is a balance shaft in the bottom of the block.
As you can see in the pics, they did not punch out the two rear cylinders.