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    HOT HATCH!

    Sep 15, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS MARK HIGGINS
    PHOTOS
    JORDAN LEIST

    While it started life as a spin-off of the Vauxhall Viva, by the time we bade farewell to the Torana in LX guise it had become a bigger and more sophisticated car.

    In February 1976 the fifth model to wear a Torana badge rolled of the production line. And while it may be considered by some as a facelifted LH model, in Torana history the LX was much more significant than that.

    The LX Torana was a car of firsts and lasts.

    Headlining the firsts was its arrival in showrooms in hatchback form; a first for the General.

    The LX was also the first Torana offering rear disc brakes. And let’s not forget the LX was the first and only Torana to have an SS badge slapped on it and only on the hatchback body.

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