Rare car in SE spec with a manual box - definitely a good thing at that age as the alternative with front wheel drive would've been a multichronic box, which would be hideous!
My parents had an S plate saloon with this engine and when they're good, they really are very nice to drive. Decent shove and pretty good fuel economy too, for a V6. Being a much earlier car theirs had a proper torque converter auto box, which coincidentally was the eventual failure point that saw the car scrapped a year or so back.
Watch out for leaky cam seals - 1 involves removal of the cambelt and the one on the other side is on the back of the engine.
Looks like you might want to pull the battery and tray out to clear the plenum drains as a precaution - looks like there could be quite a lot of leaf debris.
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