Specialty Equipment Market Association a.k.a. "the rice burners"
hold a yearly show in L.A. where americans pretend they know how to tune cars. Unfortunately this show became popular so now all manufacturers have a go.
Since Pontiac got killed by GM (well now you know) there has been speculation about what a new pontiac firebird would have looked like. Using a Chevy Camaro to modify, this is what HPP (Heide Performance Products) came up with. As a point of reference THIS is what the trans am they were trying to recreate actually looks like. At least they did the colours the same >.<
Of course SEMA is the perfect opportunity for Toyota to screw up their much loved prius even more. So they did.
Sure you get some pretty wacky customs but this was done in house by Toyota themselves Total power gain: 0 Total weight gain: No information released.On the hybrid front Hondurr faired much better. They released an concept R version of their CRZ hybrid which, unlike toyota, actually improves upon the base car with the help of a turbocharger. It also looks half decent, if it didn't have that deadweight battery pack I might even have liked it.
Then a certain nigra got a hold of a CRZ and proceeded with his team at Bisimoto and a friendly turbo to put a casual 533hp into the Hondrag.
Yes, it has a parachute to slow down.No, none of that power gain is from the electric motor.
Probably my favourite car for the show was Mazda Miata Super 20 (known as the mx-5 to everyone but americunts) done by mazda themselves. They've basically done to a brand new mx-5 what most br/o/s would do to a 20 year old one to turn it into a weekend specialist.
-Remove convertible, replace with hard top
-More aggressive suspension
-Heavy duty clutch
-Supercharge motor*
-ECU remap
-Better rubber with some nice rims
*normally with the 20 yr old one you would tarbo it
That's all I feel like writing about for now. I'll just post some pictures of random shit that turned up to SEMA and if you're really interested the complain in the comments then I can either write more or (more likely =P) post links.
lol camry
hmm, maybe next time I'll use more pictures.
Pretty.
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