2004 Ford Expedition Aspen Green Paint Color
Just aback you anticipation bling bling and dubs were all played out, forth comes the SEMA actualization with alike blingier, bigger dubs. Manufacturers showed off their wildest wares, and Mitsubishi alike fabricated an important artefact announcement.
SEMA 2004, which takes abode in Las Vegas from November 2 to 5, is the car actualization that kids affliction about. SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Architect Association show, is all about excess; wheels, anatomy kits, ablaze bras, and spokesmodels cardinal in the thousands.
Mitsubishi
The Ralliart Endeavor that Mitsubishi is assuming is so low we anticipation it was a Lancer wagon. It rides on 20″ Enkei auto complemented by a SuperAutoBacs blurred kit. Central you will acquisition a Pioneer aeronautics arrangement and Sony Playstation 2 affiliated to a Mitsubishi (how about that?) 30″ LCD screen.
Also at the Mitsubishi affectation is a Ralliart Galant powered by a 260-hp 3.8 liter akin to a 6-speed chiral gearbox, both of which will be accessible on the accessible 2006 Eclipse. Mitsubishi awkward 19″ Antagonism Hart auto beneath the car and added 4-piston Brembos for added endlessly power. This abstraction hints at a assembly Ralliart Galant that will acceptable arise in 2006.
Sport Ute SplendorWith their prevalence in accepted culture, it’s not hasty that this year’s actualization had its allotment of pimped 4x4s. Actuality are some of our favorites.
This argent TechArt has been bargain to base wagon-like heights. Which is accomplished with us. It actualization atramentous wheels, a trend at this year’s actualization as some companies inch abroad from bling.
Caroll Shelby featured a cardinal of cartage at the show, including this acute Expedition. The flared caster wells accord it an about Mustang-like charm. Almost.
“That’s a Volvo?” was article frequently asked as bodies absolved by this red Volvo-modified “Power Utility Vehicle” XC90, adorned with a widebody kit and Ferrari Challenge Stradale-like advanced fender badges. Except that isn’t a stallion, it’s a moose.
Ford adapted this Super Duty with treads in abode of tires. While this ability be applied at ski resorts, we wouldn’t appetite it in our driveway.
The Best of the RestSome things can’t be aggregate into categories, but are still account a look. These are a few of our admired “others.”
Just a few months afterwards its official release, the new Porsche ‘997’ 911 has begin itself a new brace of shoes from 9ff.
The Realtime Acura TSX chase car finds a abode abutting to its RSX brother at the Honda display.
This Legacy has a Bosal exhaust, and it appears to be a admired of the Subaru girls.
Alpine showed off this awful adapted Mini speedster. They got rid of the doors and roof and installed basement for one. Every apprehensible Alpine basic resides within.
With the CXT, International is demography accession ache at the customer bazaar (remember the Scout?). Here, it is dressed in the best intricate camo we accept anytime seen. It has a winch in the bed to elevate your circadian annihilate into the aback effortlessly. Attending for a abounding analysis in a few months.
Wheel vendors were assuming off the latest technology they could clasp into a spinning allotment of metal, such as this one with LEDs congenital into it. The photo doesn’t actualization it well, but these MHT auto can actualization off patterns or alike argument as they spin. Abutting year, watch for alive video on MHT wheels. Unreal!
What bigger way to top off your new Phantom than with a nice set of architecture auto from Asanti? No, they aren’t real, but would you absolutely appetite to get anchor dust all over millions of dollars of diamonds? And would you alike buy multi-million-dollar wheels?
The chunk in these Porsche Cayenne auto are a bit beneath in-your-face, conceivably alike classy.
Black BeautiesEverything black-black paint, atramentous windows, and atramentous auto are all the acerbity at SEMA this year, abnormally in the Giovanna Auto booth. We accompany you the best of the stealth at SEMA.
BMW 7-series on 22-inch chrome wheels. Booty a attending at Giovanna’s complete caster band at WTW Corp
Mercedes-Benz CL-class benumbed on atramentous wheels, additionally at the Giovanna display. WTW Corp
We achievement the big auto and tires on this GT don’t attack its near-200 mph top speed. For added Zenetti wheels, bang here
As if the Hummer H2 weren’t big abundant already, one aftermarket architect absitively to actualization off their chrome auto beneath this massive SUV. How did Giovanna get that affair through the door? WTW Corp
We abnormally admired this Dodge Magnum with admirable atramentous and chrome Giovannas. WTW Corp
Didn’t we see this Giovanna Rolls-Royce Phantom on MTV Cribs? Oh well, it still looks great. WTW Corp
The Mercedes-Benz S-class may be accepting old, but a set of Giovannas still accomplish it attending amazing. WTW Corp
Stunning ‘StangsThere’s no agnosticism that the new looks great. And it’s no abruptness to see a continued band of new ‘Stangs at the SEMA show. Actuality are a few of our favorites.
Tuner bonspeed showed off this admirable atramentous and red Mustang. The atramentous and red auto attending great, and the awning cartoon are awesome. The abounding band of Bonspeed articles can be begin at Bonspeed.com
Orange stripes on an orange car? It works beautifully on this ‘Stang. The anatomy kit additionally adds to the car’s adventurous curves. Still cat-and-mouse for your Mustang to arrive? Analysis out Ford Antagonism for the best in aftermarket Mustang parts. Fordracing.com
The 3dCarbon Mustang uses fender flares to accord the apparition of beneath gap amid the annoy and the fender, and the aftereffect is the attending of a lower ride height. A ride acme that absolutely is lower, acknowledgment to Eibach springs, gives the 3dCarbon Mustang a attitude that warrants the attractive but chargeless ample 22″ HRE wheels. Appointment 3dCarbon at 3dcarbon.com
Nissan
Behold the 35th ceremony Z. The appropriate Z gets an added 13 application aback able a chiral chiral – up to an alike 300 – by advantage of capricious timing on the bankrupt cam, altered pistons, and a new intake. That’s a lot of agitation for 13 horsepower, but the revised internals acquiesce a college 7,000 RPM redline, admitting at the amount of some low-RPM torque. The 350Z Clue additionally gets this agent for 2005. A new color, Ultra Yellow, debuts on the 35th Ceremony Z. Build your own 350z at Nissanusa.com
Nissan additionally showed off a few Nismo Zs, including this argent one.
And this alarming chicken one. Do you own a Nissan and dream of artery racing? Create your own Christmas account of achievement NISMO parts
Hyundai
Hyundai wants you to apperceive that the Tiburon is still cool. Watch for a brace of adapted Tiburons from Bill Smulo Engineering (top) and Axis Sport Tuning (bottom).
Another agrarian Tiburon was this blaze and blooming corrective archetype featuring lamborghini doors, put calm by Hyundai.
Jaguar
Jaguar’s “Match Head Red” X-type adapted by the California tuner bonspeed actualization a anatomy kit and a radically bargain abeyance for a touring car look. Booty a attending at added Bonspeed toys at bonspeed.com
Land Rover
Land Rover is assuming a “kitted up” Land Rover LR3, distinctively able for the Land Rover G4 Challenge in an arresting adumbration of orange. Accessories like the active lamps, the winch, the besom guards, and the massive roof arbor will be accessible to customers, but the behemothic assimilation snorkel and ladder are appropriate for the G4 competition.
Mazda
Mazda is assuming off their hot new MazdaSpeed 6, an all-wheel-drive turbo adaptation of the 6.
Volvo
Volvo makes its additional actualization at SEMA with a few vehicles, best conspicuously a V50 with the 340-horsepower turbo from the S60 R and a 450-horsepower Evolve S40.
Scion
Scion told fabricators Five Axis of Huntington Beach, CA they capital a tC with a ample television, and larboard the blow up to them. The aftereffect is this ablaze acquisitiveness widebody tC on 19″ Ray’s Engineering wheels. A GReddy turbo adds 70 hp (resulting in 230, and a 43″ Pioneer claret TV passes Scion’s one claim with aerial colors.
Haze, the artisan of this agrarian atramentous and white tC, grew up at the alpha of the hip hop era benumbed subways from Broadway to Manhattan. Scion thinks that access is credible in the abolitionist acrylic and auto on this car. Haze’s added projects accept included anthology covers for the Beastie Boys and LL Air-conditioned J, limited-edition Nike Shoes, and his own band of streetwear and furniture.
The assignment of Mister Cartoon, the artisan of this xB, has been credible in Rolling Stone, Vibe, Detour, Entertainment Weekly, and Lowrider. He is additionally amenable for bearing logos for Eminem, the Neptunes, Shakira, and others, and has advised tattoos for Xzibit, Eminem, and associates of Limp Bizkit and Outkast. With a history like that, it is no abruptness this xB is such a stunner.
The coolest xA at Scion’s affectation was this example, advised by Futura. This artisan has helped about-face graffiti into a accomplished art, and his assignment has gone from alms walls to anthology covers (including projects with MoWax Records). We adore the chaste adorableness lots of atramentous can provide, and this is a accomplished example.
Aftermarket assertive GReddy is application SEMA to actualization off a few of its latest ancestor Scion parts. This tC uses a new turbocharger and intercooler, both of which are still in development. GReddy claims that aback finished, their new TD05H-18G turbo will backpack a 400 hp potential. That will be one quick Scion.
The best altered affair about Motegi Racing’s tC is not the 20″ Motegi wheels, the coilover suspension, the anatomy kit, or alike the 1200 watt Blaupunkt stereo. What is absolutely air-conditioned is that Motegi begin allowance for a 4.2 hp pocketbike–a baby motorcycle for use at concerts, car shows, and Scion club picnics. At a actualization area anybody is aggravating to draw the absorption of a adolescent audience, this tC has gone aloft and aloft in pop-culture expression.
SEMA is not all fun and games, and this is best credible in this xB by Independent Mobility Systems. IMS affairs to absolution their xB xRamp in the additional analysis of 2005 to acquiesce wheelchair users to accompany the Scion movement. It looks like article beeline out of the Monster Garage with a continued access extending out of the tailgate, but clashing Jesse James’ creations, this one is safer and anon accessible to the public. But with 50 inches of headroom, IMS admits that the xRamp may be bigger ill-fitted for abate customers.
General Motors The General brought a accomplished army to this year’s show, assuming off the best of anniversary division. In accession to the wilder concepts apparent here, GM displayed abounding advantageous absolute apple accessories. You can acquisition a abounding account of articles for your GM agent at GM Goodwrench
Chevrolet
Chevy’s Cobalt SS Bonneville Speedster is a aftereffect to aftermost year’s Saturn Ion Red Line, with the capital aberration actuality that this car absolutely looks good. GM’s Ecotec 2.0 liter has been pushed to its limits, with a claimed 700 hp number. Can the aboriginal Chevy SS alkali flats racer exhausted the Ion’s 212.684 mph numbers from aftermost year? We shall see.
Another agitative Cobalt at this year’s actualization is the 272 SS coupe. Application the Cobalt SS (coming to dealerships in the abutting few months) as a basis, this supercharged and intercooled Chevy achieves an absorbing 270 hp out of the 2.0-liter Ecotec engine. Chevy additionally bargain the car 1.6 inches and threw on 19″ auto and tires.
Chevy’s Colorado SS bunched barter enthusiasts dream about. Beyond brakes, a attic shifter, a new rear axle, and 20″ auto accomplish this one hot little truck. And let us not balloon about the 400hp LS2 V-8 the bowtie guys awkward beneath the hood. If alone Chevy would accomplish a absolute Lightning/ SRT-10 Competitor…
For those who adopt full-size trucks, Chevy was additionally featuring a few Silverados, including this NASCAR-looking “Speedway Edition.” To accomplish the race-truck look, Chevy added a altered advanced fascia, NASCAR-style 6-lug wheels, side-exit exhaust, and antagonism buckets inside. With ablaze red acrylic this barter looks great, whether at SEMA, on a chase track, or on the street.
Chevy is authoritative their Malibu Maxx rather Opel-like with this Cross Country adaptation of their mid-size wagon. The banal 3.5-liter V-6 has been replaced by a distinctively acquainted 3.9-liter putting out 240 hp. And in approved SEMA fashion, wheels, brakes, and abeyance accept all been upgraded.
The Bonneville SSR plays two altered roles. First, it is the advance barter that will advice the aerial arrangement gearing of the Cobalt get affective a bit faster from a stop. Added chiefly though, is its role in assuming the appearance of things to come. This SSR actualization a 390-hp 6.0-liter and Tremec M10 6-speed chiral transmission, both of which will anon be included in banal SSRs; hopefully this admixture will accommodate a bit added fun that the underpowered, ample SSR we accept now.
There’s added to this Vette than a hot Antagonism Chicken acrylic job and carbon cilia addition and anatomy kit. The LS2 beneath the awning actualization machined heads, adopting achievement to 425 hp. A beneath bandy shifter has been added to the Tremec 6-speed, and the brakes accept been upgraded with cross-drilled rotors. The banal Z51 abeyance is upgraded with added bounce rates, beyond bore anti-roll bars, adjustable dampers and high-rate bushings.
Pontiac
The ablaze orange acrylic and awning scoops an the Pontiac GTO Ram Air 6 booty us aback to what is absolutely the coolest amalgamation in Pontiac history: The Judge Package. It was aftermost credible on additional bearing GTOs of the backward 1960’s, and we are blessed to see Pontiac abiding to bigger times. This car was aboriginal credible at the Woodward Dream Cruise as an “employee enthusiasm” concept.
Pontiac apparent a G6 GXP actualization vehicle, hinting at a accessible high-performance administration for the new sedan. The G6 GXP abstraction is powered by a 3.6-liter HO V-6 bearing 275 application and backed by a close-ratio six-speed chiral transmission. Although aloof a concept, the G6 GXP will be acclimated to barometer opinions about the activity of a high-performance adaptation of the new G6. Similar dispensary testing with the Bonneville GXP and Grand Prix GXP concepts resulted in blooming lights for production. The Bonneville GXP now accounts for about 30 percent of all Bonneville sales and the Grand Prix GXP is appointed to alpha assembly in 2005.
Cadillac
The Sport is a new adaptation of the award-winning SRX. Aggressive exoteric advanced and rear fascias, a appropriate grille, 20-inch wheels/tires, and bankrupt tips accord the SRX a attending that matches its already activating performance. Planned for auction in the abreast future, the SRX Sport actualization several Cadillac accessories including a carbon cilia underhood agent cover, a Corsa cat-back achievement bankrupt system, and V-Series Brembo anchor arrangement with cross-drilled rotors. What is best is that these accessories are covered beneath Cadillac’s 5-year, 60,000 mile warranty.
MHT auto featured this candied two-tone Cadillac SRX with analogous red and chrome wheels, and a few bikes on top, aloof for fun. You can acquisition added MHT articles at MHT Wheels
And analogously air-conditioned was this XLR, one of alone a few at the show, featuring atramentous and gray acrylic and again, red and chrome wheels.
Chrysler
This year’s SEMA actualization is the absolute abode for Chrysler to actualization off some of its Mopar achievement parts. Skunkwerks, an centralized achievement shop, is amenable for all of the Chrysler Group’s cartage at the show. This PT, alleged the PT Speedster, is one accomplished archetype of their work. From the Mopar genitalia bin comes a Stage 1 turbo, adopting the 4-cylinder’s achievement to 235 hp, a Stage 2 coilover abeyance kit, and a decklid spoiler. Mopar additionally provided a addition gauge, anti-sway bar, and after-effects valve. Decorating the speedster is a set of 18″ Budnik auto and a two accent atramentous and viper red acrylic job. For a account of accessible Mopar achievement parts, analysis out mopar.com
Powered by a 400-hp adaptation of the supercharged 3.6-liter V-6 of the SRT-6, the failing Crossfire Drifter actualization a array of drift-racing modifications. Skunkwerks added a abounding anatomy kit including advanced and rear fascias, an air damn, lower rocker panels, and a huge carbon cilia wing. A chopped windshield adds some aggressiveness to the Crossfire, and a custom dual-exhaust arrangement finishes off the package. Central the cockpit, a shifter, council wheel, seats, and pedals all appear from Sparco. Beneath the car is a set of BBS auto and Michelin antagonism tires, two of which are affiliated to a bound blooper rear cogwheel provided by Mercedes-Benz tuner RennTech.
The Skunkwerks aggregation calls this agent “the analytic change of the able Dodge Dakota Cloister Cab,” and well, we don’t absolutely accept what’s so analytic about it. It absolutely isn’t the ablaze orange paint. Or the massive caster annoy combo. And it absolutely isn’t the water-fording assimilation system. The Dakota Warrior H.O. is powered by a banal 260-hp 4.7-liter, and is about as big as mid-size trucks get. Forth with the accessible changes, the barter actualization a added track, winch, tow hooks, and decoupling amplitude bars. The two-tone orange and atramentous antagonism seats appear from Katzkin.
Maybe it’s aloof us, but this decapitated Durango, alleged the “Dude”, makes a bigger auto barter than, well, Dodge‘s auto trucks. This air-conditioned custom features, not surprisingly, a Hemi V-8 with a custom cat-back bankrupt system. The awning architecture was aggressive by the Viper V-10 powered Ram SRT-10, 20″ batten auto are provided by Budnik, and PPG gave the Dodge its Tangerine Pearl acrylic job.
A appropriate activity for Chrylser’s SRT team, the Dodge “Hot Rod” Magnum is one badass wagon. The hot rod affair is an attack to tie the car to 70’s Chrysler beef cars, and a few capacity accomplish that goal. The Magnum had HEMI Orange acrylic with cartoon by Kustom haus, a 70’s appearance blackout hood, 1970 bankrupt tips, and 1970 HEMI badges. Central is a custom covering cloister basement accoutrement with a abounding breadth argent centermost animate which matches the shifter and birr bezels. Added mods accommodate 22″ chrome auto from TIS (Twenty Inches Strong), a Kicker stereo, Bilstein shocks, and SRT abeyance and braking enhancements.
You’ve already credible it in our November issue, but here’s accession attending at the 425-hp SRT-8. A beyond displacement Hemi powerplant and beyond auto accomplish an already alarming American auto alike cooler.
Outrageous Dodge Magnum wagons were everywhere at SEMA this year. This one, at the DUB annual display, sports Lamborghini-style doors forth with the requisite chrome auto and bargain suspension. For added advice about DUB, appointment DUB Magazine
The two-tone acrylic job is evocative of base wagons of yesteryear. The massive auto and arena abrading looks, however, are not. But the two calm amalgamate bygone and today to accomplish absolutely a statement. And if you like these wheels, analysis out Vault Wheelsfor their abounding artefact line.
This 300C by MHT Alloys takes the block for best abandoned 300 (and there were affluence of them). We approved to accelerate a allotment of cardboard beneath this car. It didn’t work. And what is activity on with that grille? See MHT Alloysfor added info.
Yes, accession Magnum. It was absolutely possibly the best accustomed car at the show, appropriate aloft the Mustang and, strangely, the Rolls-Royce Phantom (half the assembly was allegedly at SEMA). This one was, surprisingly, congenital by Dodge themselves. We aren’t usually admirers of amethyst cars, but how can you altercate with this one?
