Start with what the Holden Camira is: a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon with 1.6 , built from 1982 to 1989, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Holden Camira is a mid-size car that was produced by Holden between 1982 and 1989. It was Holden's version of GM's J-body family of cars—GM's third "global" car platform, and was heavily based on the European J-body car – the Opel Ascona C.
The name "Camira" comes from an Aboriginal word meaning "wind." After a good initial sales run, Camira sales dropped significantly and the model was discontinued in 1989. The Holden Apollo, a rebadged Toyota Camry, was introduced as the Australian market replacement, with New Zealand instead offering the European-sourced Opel Vectra. In all 151,807 Camiras were built (85,725 JBs; 36,953 JDs; and 29,129 JEs).
The engineering
The engine is 1.6 . On the scales it comes to 1040 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed Muncie M17 manual / 5-speed Getrag 282 manual / 3-speed Turbo-Hydramatic 125 C automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2577 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Holden line-up the Holden Camira has a clear place: it replaced the Holden Sunbird/Torana; it handed the line to the Holden Apollo (Australia) / Opel Vectra (New Zealand); the factory was Adelaide, South Australia (Elizabeth), Australia. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Opel Corsa, the Toyota Camry, the Porsche 944. Its Holden stablemates include the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Holden Camira — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.