3.0i 12v PRV Petrol V6 176bhp

The PRV was offered also in the XM as the flagship top end engine, heavily revised from earlier PRV engines it also had Even firing order and featured a Balance Shaft on the front bank neatly disguised under a slight taller front Valve Cover.

The PRV was perhaps coming to the end of its life being a 1970s design, but rather robust, using chain drive cam shafts and for the balance shaft too. Mounted transverse for the first time in the XM with a distributer on the end of the front bank. Electronic ignition was used for the Spark and timing.