HSV VZ Maloo R8: Aussie super-ute tears the record books a new one

摘要

SURE, YOUR W1 is the fastest, most powerful and last Commodore-based HSV to be built, but does it hold a world record? Well, the 2006 VZ Maloo R8 does, sitting right under the title for the fastest production 'pickup truck' on the planet. And rightfully so. Of course, down here in Australia we've called 'em utes since Lewis Bandt helped Mrs Farmer get her pigs to market in the 1930s. And we've also been hotting them up for as long as we can remember. Only two years after HSV was founded, it based its first super-ute on the VG Commodore, with a 5.0-litre V8 and overhauled front suspension.