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A 2017 Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) GTSR Maloo W1 ute, finished in a pale yellow shade, nicknamed XU3 Yellah, has sold at auction for $1.2 million AUD through Lloyds Auctions.  The sale marks the highest price ever achieved at auction for a Holden production car and makes it the most expensive road-legal Holden ever sold. The previous record was held by a 1985 Holden Commodore VK SS Group A road car, driven daily by Peter Brock, which sold for $1.057 million at auction. This particular HSV GTSR Maloow W1 ute is build number one of just four ever made. It has only 26 kilometres on the odometer and was never road registered. The buyer remains confidential. Lloyds Auctions stated there was “fierce global bidding erupted online and via phone”, with the final sale price reached through “private negotiations two days post-auction”. The car was listed just before Christmas and was initially passed in when bidding peaked at $1.1 million. Another HSV GTSR Maloo W1 ute in red also fetched h...

From 2018 to 2021, almost any red shoe sitting on the walls of Foot Locker and JD Sports was guaranteed to find its way onto the feet of an eshay or adlay.  If there was ever a peak for it, it was 2020. That year, I was working at Mount Druitt Foot Locker and there was one statement my colleagues and I heard on repeat: “Bro, they gotta bring back the TN Lavas. Hottest shoe ever.” The fascination that was almost obsession-like with red shoes ran so deep that it spilled far beyond the Nike Air Max Plus. All red colourways across multiple brands and silhouettes, such as the Nike Air Max 270, ASICS GEL‑QUANTUM 360 Knit 1 and Under Armour HOVR Phantom 2, moved in a constant cycle of selling out and being restocked every fortnight.  It was a constant rotation that back in Mount Druitt Foot Locker, we had to create a book to take down names and numbers of anyone who came asking for one, so we could notify them of their size when they restocked. Even artists felt the pull. OneFour (th...