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Carsales Staff5 Jul 2006
NEWS

HSV Ute breaks speed record

HSV's Maloo is the world's fastest truck -- it's official

HSV's Mark Skaife has driven a Maloo R8 ute into the record books.

The five-times Australian Touring Car champion and Bathurst winner piloted the showroom-stock V8-engined light commercial in a successful attempt on the Guinness World Record for the fastest land speed reached by a production standard utility/pick-up truck.

The record was last set in February 2004 by a Dodge RAM SRT-10 8.3 litre V10. The 6.0-litre HSV two-door smashed the V10's top speed of 248.783 km/h, going on to record a new two-way average mark of 271.44km/h. The run was conducted last month near Woomera in South Australia's outback far north.

To read the story behind the record attempt, check out the latest edition of Wheels Magazine. For more details click here.

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