Holden Sunbird

The Holden Sunbird was a mid size car that Holden built in Australia in the model years 1976 to 1980 as the four cylinder variant of the LX and UC Torana. Until November 1976 the weakest Torana was still called the LX Torana, then it became the LX Sunbird. The four door sedan had a 1.9 litre inline four of about 100 bhp supplied by Opel, a manual four speed gearbox or an optional three speed automatic, and looked almost like the Torana apart from a few small details. A three door hatchback coupe followed in May 1977. The UC Sunbird of March 1978 came in Sunbird, SL and SL/E trims with rectangular headlights, and from September 1978 the Holden Starfire engine of 62 kW replaced the Opel unit. The hatchbacks ended in late 1979 and the sedans in September 1980, and Holden replaced the Sunbird with a four cylinder Commodore and from 1982 the Camira.