The Kia PacWest Adventure Sorento was ready to go off the grid with Fox Racing coilovers, Nitto Trail Grappler tires, and a snorkel for fording deep rivers. We can’t remember the last time so many outdoorsy concepts were displayed in the main halls at SEMA. When named to the Top 21 in the Battle of the Builders, even the judges were confounded enough by it to simply label it a “Datsun Truck” in the official standings. Many of them were actually Nissan 240SXs wearing the Rocket Bunny “Boss” kit, which grafts an old school Datsun nose onto one of the most popular drift platforms of the 1990s.Īt the Toyo Tires Treadpass, Dominic Le’s “Hakotora” was a Nissan C10 Skyline front clip merged with a 1973 Nissan Sunny Truck, a car-based pickup similar in concept to the El Camino. The whole shebang weighs just 2,080 pounds, shaving 250 pounds off of an already light modern car.ĭatsuns seemed to be everywhere this year-but looks can be deceiving. The more extreme of the two is the Speedster, which not only loses its roof, but also its windshield-in a throwback to racecars of the 1950s. That’s why Mazda’s pair of topless concepts based on the recently released 2016 MX-5 Miata production cars were stars of the show. It’s easy to stay light when you don’t have any modern safety or emissions equipment on the car. Kevin Desirello, who built the car in his garage, was named in the Top 21 in SEMA’s Battle of the Builders, an honor he shares with icons like Chip Foose. A turbocharged stroker engine from a Japanese-spec Nissan Silvia S15 makes about 350 horsepower, and the whole car weighs less than 2,000 pounds. The same strategy could be found at SEMA, where we took notice of the forced-induction build at the Garrett Turbos booth. Examples included a bagged Chevy pickup and a Dodge Viper drift car.įor generations, hot rodders wanting to go faster have minimized unnecessary stuff on their cars. Color-changing LED headlights might face similar legal issues, but that didn’t stop several booths from adding them to their show cars. Remember when neon “underglow” was all the rage? Before it was banned for causing confusion with emergency vehicles, you could make your car a rolling Times Square with any imaginable color lighting. But upon reflection, we were able to identify six major trends at the 2015 show, which wrapped up a few days ago. The sheer volume of outrageous rides and cool parts makes the meaning of SEMA, the nation’s major aftermarket auto show, difficult to grasp.
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