The Drift King – and new Top Gear presenter – takes on the most Australian car ever: HSV’s tyre-shredding, supercharged GTS Maloo.

The news that the most Australian of all Aussie cars, the HSV GTS Maloo, is set to burn up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend, got us thinking about the last time a Brit sampled HSV’s supercharged ute.

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To see Harris’s full assessment, and some mega drifts, watch the full video below.

If, however, still pictures are more your thing, we had ace motoring photographer Thomas Wielecki along to capture how the day went. It was long, smokey and – thanks to Harris’s infectious personality – fun.

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