I had one for years, the sixth from last off the production line. It belonged to a guy who used it to tow a race car (an identical Scimitar) and had a 2.9i with K jetronic and some tuning to improve the torque. Put a bike in the back without taking the wheels off, "traditional" handling, reasonably quick, but thirsty.
The the only real pain was the indicator stalk being on the right, I never quite got used to turning the wipers on at junctions.