HSV ute sets new auction record
HSV ute sets new auction record
January 31, 2021
Rare GTSR W1 Maloo fetches $1.05 million as ‘last’ homegrown Holden sells for $750K
A 2017 HSV GTSR W1 Maloo Ute has set a new auction record for an Australian-made production vehicle, selling for $1.05 million at an online Lloyds auction yesterday.
At the same auction, the last Holden Commodore to be framed, painted and allocated a serial number (but not the last to leave the factory in Adelaide), a 2017 VFII SS-V Redline sedan, sold for $750,000.
The unique HSV ute, one of four secret GTSR W1 Maloos produced after the end of local Holden manufacturing in October 20917, eclipsed the previous Aussie-car auction record of $1.03m paid in June 2018 for a 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III once owned by Australian cricketer Jeff Thomson.