"A Holden Premier", you cry, "that's not a bad car!" And you'd be right, because this isn't a Holden Premier. It's a Mazda Roadpacer AP, a Premier made for Japanese high-rollers and fitted with a rotary engine from the RX-4. While they weren't offered for sale in Australia, it was a colossal flop in Japan where it was expensive, slow, and used even more fuel than the Holden on which it was based, during an oil crisis. According to some reports, it used up to 26L/100km.

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apparently mazda shipped over a heap of rotary engines to australia andholden sent over the premier bodies lj and lc toranas were sent over there to

Colossal flop no doubt.

Might as well try and power a tugboat with a A12.

yeah i think south africa got rotary toranas

A 20B might make it move a bit better.

there was one for sale about 2 years ago white here in australia with a 13b, got to 12000 didnt sell (ebay)

they stopped making them cos they were too sluggish and under powered (like a normal holden haha)

would be worth asking mazda if they can get new doors and gaurds

I had never heard of this before so I thought I would post it up.

yeah they also made 13b buses in japan

the japanese are crazy! (in both good and bad ways lol)