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  • Truckin' Magazine's F-150 SEMA concept

    The best-selling vehicle in Ford’s lineup is the F-Series pickup, and that’s been the case for many years. If Ford is using SEMA to highlight other hot sellers, like the Escape and Fusion, it stands to reason that tuned F-Series pickups would command booth space, too. Truckin’ Magazine started with an F-150 FX2 Sport Super Cab, equipped with the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6. To give the pickup “track-like handling,” Truckin’ dropped the ride height, added larger wheels with low-profile tires and bolted on a big brake kit. To maximize passenger comfort, the...

  • Kyle Busch’s ‘Rowdy Edition’ Toyota Camry
    Kyle Busch Presents His ‘Rowdy Edition’ Toyota Camry Ahead Of SEMA Show

    Remember the Toyota Racing Dream Build Challenge that pits four of Toyota's top drivers from NASCAR and NHRA in a race car build-off? Well, we now have our first look at the entry from one of the drivers, NASCAR star Kyle Busch, who has come up with the new ‘Rowdy Edition’ Camry based...

  • 600-hp Bisimoto Engineering Hyundai Elantra GT for SEMA
    Bisimoto Hyundai Elantra GT Brings 600 HP To SEMA

    In the world of almost pointlessly powerful front-wheel-drive cars, Bisimoto Engineering is a legend. Wringing unbelievable herds of horses from pint-sized engines, the Bisimoto team continues its magic, pulling 600-plus horsepower out of a 1.8-liter Hyundai Elantra GT for SEMA. Based on the...

  • Fisker Karma at SEMA 2012
    Fisker Partners With The Aftermarket To Show The Karma At SEMA

    If you thought that SEMA was limited to tuners and mainstream automakers, think again. Even extended-range electric sedan builder Fisker is back in on the action this year, partnering with suppliers to demonstrate personalization options for its Karma sedan. First up is 3M, who will be on hand in...

  • Chevrolet Malibu Turbo Performance 2012 SEMA concept
    Jaguar XFR-S Spied, Four-Cylinder Porsche, Chevrolet SS Debut: Today's Car News

    The Pontiac G8 is coming back, but it will be wearing a Chevrolet badge along with new styling. It will also be replacing the current Chevrolet Impala in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. While the actual vehicle itself won't make its debut until February at the Daytona 500, the racing version will be...

  • Chevrolet Malibu Turbo Performance 2012 SEMA concept
    Chevrolet Previews 2012 SEMA Fleet

    Next week is the annual Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada, and this year is set to be one of the biggest thanks to a handful of modified vehicles from the likes of Chrysler, Ford and Hyundai. Now it's Chevrolet’s turn to show off its wares, and...

  • VACCAR's Urban Escape Adventurer, built for the 2012 SEMA show

    Ford’s list of tuned vehicles for this year’s SEMA show just keeps on growing, and now the automaker has announced a pair of unlikely show cars based on its new Escape compact crossover. Both variants are based on a 2.0-liter EcoBoost-powered SE model, though only one gets all-wheel drive while the other makes do with front-wheel drive. VACCAR handled the build of the front-drive Escape, while Heide Performance Products (HPP) tackled the all-wheel-drive crossover. VACCAR is calling its build the Urban Escape Adventurer, and the tuner says the crossover “represents the ideal...

  • ARK Veloster "Alpine" Concept for SEMA 2012
    Hyundai's Latest SEMA Addition: ARK Veloster "Alpine" Concept

    Hungry for another slammed, two-tone, big-wheeled Veloster? Then buy your tickets for SEMA now, as there will be a bunch of those present. Among, the ARK Veloster "Alpine" Concept. Wearing a host of aerodynamics bits from ARK, including a carbon fiber "Rally Wing," custom fenders, bumpers, side...

  • Jeff Dunham testing out the Challenger SRT8 that will become his SEMA project car
    Jeff Dunham Building Challenger SRT For SEMA: Video

    Codenamed Project Ultraviolet, one of Chrysler's next SEMA specials is a Challenger SRT8 built in cooperation with Mopar, SRT, and ... Jeff Dunham. If you're wondering what a ventriloquist/comedian has to do with muscle cars, you're certainly not alone. The question may or may not be answered after...

  • 2013 Ford Focus ST built by Tanner Foust Racing for SEMA 2012
    Ford Bringing Five Tuned Focus ST Hatchbacks To SEMA 2012

    When Ford announced it was showing four tuner versions of its new Fusion sedan at SEMA, we were a bit concerned that the automaker had forgotten about its other products of interest to enthusiasts, likes its new Focus ST hot hatch. It turns out that wasn’t the case, since Ford has announced...

  • Hyundai Veloster 'Velocity' Concept, SEMA 2012
    Hyundai Veloster "Velocity" Concept: SEMA 2012

    The SEMA show is the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association's yearly bash celebrating all that's new and ostensibly cool in tuner and aftermarket culture. Hyundai has embraced the show with a bearhug again this year, adding a new Veloster "Velocity" concept to the mix in addition to its...

  • 2015 Audi R8 GT Sport spy shots
    2014 Infiniti G37 Spy Shots, Wild Lexus LFA Prototype, Audi R8 GT Sport: Top Photos Of The Week

    As automakers prepare for SEMA, we've been kept busy with first glimpses of several upcoming new cars undergoing testing. From the Germans to the Japanese, no automaker was safe from our spy photographers' lenses. We spied the new 2014 Infiniti G37 sporting new styling clearly inspired by the...

  • The Dodge Charger Juiced

    To mark 75 years of Mopar parts and accessories, Chrysler is pulling out all the stops for this year’s SEMA show. With plans to display 24 Mopar modified vehicles (plus parts and accessories), the automaker has taken a 15,300 square foot booth in Las Vegas. Top draws to the exhibit will likely be the SRT Viper, the Dodge Charger Juiced, the Chrysler 300 Luxury and the Jeep Wrangler Sand Trooper, although fans of the Fiat 500 and Ram pickups will likely argue that point. The SRT Viper being shown at SEMA will come with a carbon fiber X-Brace underhood, complete with the Viper’s...

  • 2013 Ford Fusion, built by Tjin Edition for SEMA 2012
    Ford Showing Off Four Tuned Fusion Sedans At SEMA

    When Ford showed us its Evos concept in the summer of 2011, we immediately said “build it.” J Mays, Ford’s head of design said, “sorry, not going to happen - but don’t be surprised when a new model comes to market with many of the Evos’ design cues.” That...

  • Cosworth Genesis Racing Series Coupe, SEMA 2012
    Cosworth Hyundai Genesis Racing Series Coupe Preview: SEMA 2012

    This year's SEMA show will feature a special track-ready but street-friendly Cosworth-tuned Hyundai Genesis Coupe.

  • Mopar-enhanced Chrysler vehicles to be shown at the 2012 SEMA show.
    Chrysler Teases (Some Of) Its 2012 SEMA Show Cars

    Emphasizing the strength of its Mopar brand, Chrysler is teasing five Mopar-modified vehicles in advance of this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show. The five shown, including a Jeep Wrangler, a Dodge Dart, a Dodge Charger, a Fiat 500 and a RAM pickup, are only a...

  • Hyundai Genesis Coupe R-Spec Track Edition, by ARK Performance
    ARK Performance Building Track-Ready Hyundai Genesis Coupe For SEMA

    If you were counting on Hyundai to release more Genesis Coupe concepts at this year’s SEMA Show, it looks like you won’t be disappointed. The first Hyundai SEMA concept that we’re seeing is based on the Genesis Coupe R-Spec variant, and it comes courtesy of ARK Performance...

  • Another victim of the car hobby explains his addiction
    Fiat Explains The Car Customization Hobby: Video

    We’ve all been there. It starts innocently enough, perhaps with a drop-in, oiled-gauze air filter. The next thing you know, you’re eating ramen to afford an ECU reflash, and from there it’s a very short trip to blowing the mortgage payment on a set of 18-inch alloy wheels mounted...

  • 2012 SEMA Mustang Build: High Gear Exterior by Jennifer Seely

    Cars, and specifically muscle cars, are not the exclusive domain of male enthusiasts. That’s the rough premise behind a project called the SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women, which allowed fans to choose one of three Mustang designs penned by women, to be built by women for this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show. The winning entry was a concept called High Gear, designed by Ford employee Jennifer Seely. Inspired by a variety of categories including jewelry, fashion and architecture, the High Gear concept is meant to “stimulate the senses by fusing...

  • 2012 SEMA Mustang Build: Chromatic Exterior by Jennifer Seely
    Voting Open For The SEMA Mustang Designed And Built By Women

    Ford will present a custom 2013 Mustang GT designed and built by women at the 2012 SEMA show.

  • 2013 Ford Mustang GT Convertible
    Ford To Present Mustang Designed And Built By Women At SEMA

    Ford is out to prove that women are just as capable as men when it comes to modifying vehicles with aftermarket parts by getting a team mostly made up of women to help design and build a custom 2013 Ford Mustang GT for this year’s SEMA show. Dubbed the SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women, the...

  • Bo Zolland's 1968 Camaro project. Image: Zolland Design
    Bo Zolland building 1968 Camaro for 2012 SEMA show

    Swedish designer Bo Zolland knows a thing or two about making classic cars look even better than they did originally. His firm, Vizualtech (now renamed Zolland Design AB), has penned such masterpieces as an updated Volvo P1800 and the Jaguar E-Type-inspired Growler, which will see limited...

  • D3 Le Monstre Cadillac CTS-V Coupe wide-body. Photo by Autoholics.com.
    D3 Le Monstre Wide-Body Cadillac CTS-V Coupe: 2011 SEMA Live Photos

    As if the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe weren't impressive enough in stock form, the bodywork and tuning gurus at D3 have decided to throw a wide-body conversion at the car, put huge wheels and tires on it, and boost the power to 1,001-hp. Built not just for show, but for go, the be-winged wide-body CTS-V...

  • Shelby Cobra Prototype No. 1. Photo by Autoholics.com
    Original Shelby Cobra Prototype: 2011 SEMA Live Photos

    There are hordes of hotted-up, modified, and tweaked cars at the 2011 SEMA show, but one car in particular harks back to a purer, simpler time. Despite its age, it packs no less punch: it's the original prototype chassis for the Shelby Cobra, built in 1962. Wearing chassis code CSX0001, this is the...

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