SEMA Newsflash: Kia Concepts November 03, 2005
Pay off the credit cards. Donate to a charity. Both are good places to put the money saved by buying a relatively inexpensive vehicle like the Kia Rio or Kia Sportage. But this is SEMA season, so …
SEMA Newsflash: Hummer H3 Street Concept November 03, 2005
Based on reader interest at Autobytel.com, the new, smaller Hummer H3 is reinvigorating the Hummer brand – even though it offers buyers the meager power of the five-cylinder engine found in the Chev…
2005 SEMA Auto Show Update November 03, 2005
There’s always room for a little more of everything. That very well could be the theme of the 2005 SEMA Auto Show, as fabricators, customizers and auto manufacturers squeezed more of the good stuff in…
SEMA Newsflash: 2006 Subaru WRX TR, Legacy 2.5 GT Spec B November 03, 2005
Some kids love plastic model cars. You know, the kind that come in a cardboard box with a picture of the fully-assembled vehicle, glued and painted perfectly.
SEMA Newsflash: Honda Ridgeline Street Sport Concept November 03, 2005
Going in the opposite direction of the ALl Terrain Concept Ridgeline, the Street Sport Concept Ridgeline shown at the 2005 SEMA show in Las Vegas ventures into the sport truck realm.
SEMA Newsflash: Honda Ridgeline All Terrain Concept November 03, 2005
Though only in the game a short time, Honda is quickly getting a handle on this whole pickup truck thing. Scarcely a year after its introduction for 2006, tuner and concept versions of the all-new Rid…
SEMA Newsflash: Ford GTX1 Concept November 03, 2005
Quick: Picture yourself driving to the market in a clamshell roadster toting a 550-horsepower, 5.4-liter supercharged V8 -- with configurable roof.
SEMA Newsflash: FunkMaster Flex Fusion November 03, 2005
It’s hard to imagine the FunkMaster Flex Taurus.
Not to pick on the Taurus, that icon to the company sales force and rental fleets across the land, but…it’s just hard to see a two-tone whatcha-ma-ca…
SEMA Newsflash: Honda Civic Si Sport Concept November 02, 2005
There’s nothing like being first to give you a warm feeling of self-satisfied smugness. So says Honda, anyway, judging from the assured and confident looks darting back and forth among staffers during…
SEMA Newsflash: 2007 Hyundai Accent Three-door November 02, 2005
At first it was intriguing, this big box stuck in the corner of the Hyundai booth at the 2005 SEMA Auto Show, resting among the whirring machines, lights, paint, metal and rubber. A Box. The Box. Sta…
2005 SEMA Auto Show November 02, 2005
Parents, they just don’t understand.
And it’s likely that they never will understand about fast and flashy cars, or leather and tattoos. Even if they were, during their own righteous glory days, b…
2004 SEMA Photo Gallery November 10, 2004
No guts, no glory. Muscle Machine’s 1953 Studebaker rod proves that real automotive beauty isn’t just skin deep with its beautiful chromed engine on display.
2004 SEMA Show: Moving On November 05, 2004
It is here that sheet metal gets a personality. Here where engines and tires, previously built to behave, learn about rude manners and smoky burnouts, and here where cars learn to climb over boulder…
2004 SEMA Show November 03, 2004
LAS VEGAS, NV --- Larry Woods did it. Did it to all of us. For the past three decades, Woods has designed some of the hottest rods, super cars and exotics ever made; his cars have arguably been the so…