The World’s Fastest Commercial Vehicle Is An LSA-Powered ‘Ute’

The Vauxhall Maloo VXR8 LSA Is An Extraordinarily Fast Truck In The Hands Of Tiff Needel

When you hand a brand new Ute truck with nearly 600 supercharged horsepower, rear-wheel drive, and a manual transmission to a hot shoe racing driver/presenter like Tiff Needel, you can rest assured that it is going to get a proper thrashing. As expected, Tiff took the car immediately to Silverstone’s Grand Prix circuit for a few laps at a track day. Intending to see what the car was capable of, Tiff ended up getting in a thrust-and-parry battle with a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 car with lots of aero and wide slick tires. It’s obvious that this Maloo (how do you do?) is the truest muscle truck ever built, and would beat the pants off of most sports cars in a straight line. It’s raw and brutal and powerful and strangely pretty in a way.

Through a lap of Silverstone in the Maloo, Tiff suffers with quite a lot of understeer and oversteer, constantly working at the wheel to keep the thing in a straight line. For some automotive enthusiasts, that’s what they really want in a car. They want a challenge, they want a car that needs to be tamed. This is certainly one of those kinds of cars, er trucks… Tiff’s talents have not waned with age, but even he couldn’t help getting reprimanded from track officials for excessive drifting during a track day.

GM has built a big-power sport truck that can hold its own on track with proper racing cars, and even walk away from the run of the mill Porsche, BMW, or boutique sports car. We came into this video expecting to be impressed, but more than that, we’ve been blown away! The fact that the Vauxhall Maloo, a rebadged version of the Holden Maloo produced in Australia, has been marked for discontinuation, makes us equal parts sad that it is going away and happy that it’s being treated to such an amazing final special edition send-off.

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