Prior to the 2008 SEMA Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz launched the “Tuner Challenger” a competition for tuning firms to show their skills with the Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class compact SUV. Four interpretations are being shown including the RENNtech GLK Pikes Peak Rally Racer, BRABUS Widestar, Boulevard Customs’ GLK Urban Whip and Legendary Motorcar Company’s GLK Rock Crawler. The base [...]
Kia is showing off the Borrego Limited Concept, a customized Ruo5 hatchback, the Soul Burner and KOUP Concepts at the 2008 SEMA Auto Show today in Las Vegas. The 2009 Kia Borrego Limited Concept shows an accessorized Borrego made by Kia’s design team as a test bed for a new line of accessories being studied [...]
Nelly will see his brand new customized 2009 Ford Flex for the first time today when it is unveiled at the 2008 SEMA Auto Show in Las Vegas. The, 34-year old rapper turned actor says that he fell for the Flex when he saw it at a Ford-sponsored event in Atlanta – his home town. [...]
We saw the 2008 Ford Mustang FR500CJ briefly last month, but today Ford took the wraps off the race-ready Mustang at the 2008 SEMA Auto Show. Known simply as the Cobra Jet, it will join the Mustang FR500S, the Mustang FR500C and the Mustang FR500GT. The Cobra Jet is the drag racing version of the [...]
“Like its fighter jet and dinosaur namesakes, the F-150 SVT Raptor is tough, fast, aggressive, and built with the off-road enthusiast in mind,” Derrick Kuzak, Ford”s group vice president for Global Product Development, said today at the launch of probably the wildest pickup we have ever layed our eyes on. The 2010 Ford F-150 SVT [...]
Along with four customized 2010 Chevrolet Camaros, GM Performance Parts will show a lineup of new accessories and performance components ready for launch at the 2008 SEMA Auto Show in Las Vegas. The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro can be personalized to individual tastes with a lineup of interior trim kits, interior accessories, audio and electronics upgrades, [...]
GM will be bringing four concepts based on the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro to the 2008 SEMA Auto Show in Las Vegas. The lineup consists of the Camaro LS7 Concept, Camaro Black Concept, Camaro GS Racecar Concept and one customized by Dale Eranhardt Jr. The Camaro LS7 Concept gets its power from a GM Performance Parts’ [...]
You would think with the amount of limited cash that GM has on hand they would refrain from bringing concepts to the 2008 SEMA Show. Nonetheless, as some say, the show must go on. Joining the Pontiac G8 GXP Street Concept and the Pontiac Solstice GXP Coupe will be the Pontiac G8 ST Concept. The [...]
We first saw the 2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe at the 2008 New York Auto Show in March. It will now come to Las Vegas as a 2009 Pontiac Solstice GXP by GM Performance Parts. The production 2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe will be powered by a turbocharged 2.0L Ecotec 4-cylinder engine that will make 260-hp. However, [...]
In about five years, GM will drop the rear-wheel-drive G8 sedan from Pontiac’s lineup. But before that happens, enthusiasts and GM engineers that love the model will have their last couple of hurrahs. Following the Pontiac G8 GXP that goes on sale this fall, GM will release its new LSX454 crate motor. However, at the 2008 [...]
