Holden sales record as HSV sells for $1.2 million

A record sum of $1.2 million was paid for it 2017 HSV GTSR S1 Lloyds Auctions “shattered expectations” and achieved the highest price achieved at auction for a Holden production car.

The extremely rare 2017 HSV GTSR W1 in “XU3 Yellah” livery was build number 001, one of four test vehicles produced “in secret” by engineers ahead of the release of the legendary HSV W1 sedan.

The now record-breaking vehicle was never road-legal and has just 26km on the clock, with its 474kW/815Nm 6.2-litre supercharged V8 ‘LS9’ engine and six-speed Tremec manual gearbox barely used.

The $1.2 million result tops the $1.05 million paid for another of the “fab four” Maloos in 2021, while both beat the price paid for a 1985 Holden VK Commodore SS Group A, which fetched just over $1 million the same year.

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“The whisper of doubt became a reality,” Lee Hames, chief operating officer at Lloyds Auctions, said in a statement, adding: “This $1.2 million result… shatters expectations.”

Lloyds said the final price was agreed two days after last Saturday’s auction, following private negotiations sparked by global interest in the rare HSV.

The buyer of the vehicle is subject to confidentiality.

While a record for a Holden road car, higher prices were paid for production Fords, particularly the legendary 1971 Falcon XY GT-HO Phase III, a homologation model that Allan Moffat drove to victory at Bathurst.