What is a torana

The Brabham also included wider wheel rims and red-wall tyres, power assisted front disc brakes as standard, different badging and black body accents. Automatic transmission was not available on this model. This featured locally made body panels, replacing the imported bodies of the original HB. The model line up now included a 4-door sedan which was developed in Australia, with four-door bodies shipped back to the UK to be constructed and sold as the Viva.

A collapsable steering column was now fitted, together with a new recessed instrument cluster, new indicator switch, and new steering wheel borrowed from the contemporary full-sized Holden. These local components replaced the previously imported Vauxhall items. A consequence of using these local components was the loss of the stalk operated headlight dip switch and horn.

The dip switch ended up on the floor, as was the case for full-size Holdens. Dual circuit brakes were now standard on all models, though power assisted front disc brakes were still optional with the standard 56 bhp 42 kW; 57 PS engine.

The Brabham Torana was still available, in two-door form only. It now included a sports steering wheel similar to the contemporary Holden Monaro GTS, full instrumentation, different badging, and different black accenting. The HB Torana continued until late Total production was 16, with imported panels and 20, with the locally manufactured bodies.

The next generation of Toranas LC appeared in October and were available with either a four- or six-cylinder engine.

The six-cylinder cars had a longer wheelbase inches against the The Torana was Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for Body styles were all new and available in either two or four doors, and were offered in S or SL trim. Bench or bucket front seats were also an option, along with disc front brakes. Later in production, the ci engine was replaced with a larger ci version badged as the '' which also made it into the last of the LC GTR cars in two-barrel form.

This car featured a rear spoiler, guard flutes, wider steel rims, full instrumentation and front disc brakes as standard. It soon gained huge popularity in Australia, being an ideal race car in many forms of motor sport, especially Series Production touring car racing and rallying. In February , the facelifted LJ Torana was introduced with the six-cylinder models now visually associated with the larger Holden HQ series.

Many mechanical components were shared with the LC, with the major changes limited to the choice of engines. The and engines carried over into the revised six-cylinder Torana models, and the engine known as the in the HQ range was adopted as the engine for the LJ Torana GTR sedan.

Gearbox choices remained the same across the range. By now equipping the XU-1 with the ci engine and larger 1.

This was due to the 'Supercar scare' of , which involved vast political pressure being placed upon Holden, Ford and Chrysler to abandon their proposed specially built 'Bathurst Supercars', such as the XU This was the result of a media frenzy that was reporting against these soon-to-be released "bullets on wheels" available to the general public.

In effect, all three manufacturers bowed to this pressure, and Holden would postpone its introduction of a V8 Torana for two years until the release of the slightly larger LH series Torana in A total of 81, LJ Toranas were built by Holden in Australia, with some exported to New Zealand, but only in 6-cylinder form, likely due to the similar 4-cylinder Vauxhall Viva HC range being sold there as well.

The SL model, with bucket seats and 4-speed floor shift, or Trimatic three-speed automatic was also shipped to New Zealand in CKD kit form for local assembly from , becoming the first Kiwi-built Torana.

Unlike the Torana, the was also available as a five-door station wagon. Powered by a 1, cc four-cylinder engine, the sold poorly in the Korean market with only 8, units produced; the car was perceived to suffer from high fuel consumption. However, the Chevrolet version continued to sell alongside it until both models were discontinued in A smaller 1, cc engine was fitted to deliver better fuel economy than its Hyundai and Kia competitors, however, sales did not recover with only cars sold in two years.

To fill in time before the March release of the four-cylinder GM world T-car Holden Gemini, the short wheelbase 4-cylinder 1. This car was released in February on the Australian market only, in both two- and four-door forms, as the TA Torana. It was only produced for 11 months with a total production run of 11, units. March saw the first completely new Torana body, with the arrival of the larger mid-sized LH series, produced in four-door sedan style only.

Despite the larger external size, the car was relatively cramped by mids standards. Daniel British. Libby British.

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