Volkswagen show Super CC Eco Performance Concept at SEMA 2008

Volkswagen presented new optimum performance and economy Super CC Eco Performance Concept for the visitors’s 2008 SEMA show. It takes the Passat CC FSI to new levels, namely higher output and lower fuel consumption but also to subtle styling highs. The so-called CC Super Concept was planned by the VW Design Center in California with assistance from APR, LLC, Recaro, H&R Suspension and Brembo. Featuring in a grey pearl paint, the four-door vehicle thought’s external is enhanced with black chrome embellish accents, a custom front and rear mega, border panels and a rather good looking machined aluminum spoiler on the boot lid. However what truly caught our mind were the custom designed 10-spar, 20-edge alloys wrapped around in high performance 245/30 R20 tires.

The notion’s evil cure continues inside with high-gloss piano black accents offset by matte black graphics as well as custom-made black leather Recaro seats and matching level mats, both of which are highlighted with pasty piping.

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LIVE at SEMA 2008: Scorpion HX with 600 hp engine by Ronn Motor Company

Ronn Maxwell and a side of fabricators, engine builders and all-around car guys, sought to start a supercar that delivered arresting good looks, engaging powerful dynamics and a bit of green technology to convey the supercar into the 21st century. The significance is the 450-hp Scorpion and its hotter, 600-hp sibling, the Scorpion HX.

Building off a lightweight chrome-moly chassis shrouded in a carbon roughage body, the Scorpion has a seductive identity grant up it’s hurt, along with 20-crawl MOZ wheels and 12-inch Wilwood disc brakes. The 3.5-liter DOHC VTEC-equipped V6 is pulled from the 2008 Acura TL Type-S and mated to a close-ratio six-pace physical transfer state to the rear wheels through lSD. The standard Scorpion puts out 450 hp, while the HX uses a duo of turbos and a proprietary intercooler setup to take harvest up to 600 hp. Preliminary 0-60 time aren’t unfilled yet (we’d speculate wherever in the 3.5-following scale), but top speed should be in surplus of 200 mph.

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SEMA Hummers: Amazing and Strange

At the SEMA 2008 Auto Show, we find some interesting options for Hummer tuning. Some of them really amazing, but others is very strange. Let’s watch it on photo.

It doesn’t scare us that somebody makes a 30-inch wheels. It does that somebody actually makes a 30-shuffle tire. We are behinds the time because Pirelli has been making the Scorpion Zero Asimmetrico in 315/30R30 sizes since 2006. We stippled two single Hummer H2s fair the exhaust along with two secede wheels – one with the Giovanna Caracas-8 and the other with Asanti AF 143, both, of course, in chrome.

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LIVE at SEMA 2008: Four Chevrolet Camaro Concepts and Accessories Revealed

GM officially present 4 Camaro concepts at the SEMA show 2008. We knew we’d see some variations of the Chevrolet Camaro on present, but the facts had us aching to see the in self. While each has their own rare pull, the LS7 Concept stood outmost.

Designed to be something of a bewilder-back to the glory being of the muscle car era when somebody in the know could toddle into their district Chevy dealer and limit the COPO box to order up a chase-bred, fire-breathing 427 V8 in the engine bay, this LS7 Concept shows what 2010 Camaro shoppers might be able to do with a great letter-prose struggle. The LS7, as its name implies, skin the GM Performance Parts LS7. Crate motor tuned to fabricate 550 horsepower gratitude to several GMPP performance accessories.

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Branew tuning kit for Nissan GT-R to debut at SEMA

The Japanese tuner Branew presented the will premiere a new body styling kit for the Nissan GT-R, which with wheels package will be on show at the 2008 SEMA show in Las Vegas.

The kit includes a front lip spoiler, plane skirts, rear diffuser/underspoiler, rear wing, titanium exhaust tips that exit in the pivot, new stainless steel mufflers and a fine of dull or ‘superchrome’ three-instance pretend wheels in 23″ diameter. The end answered is a car that looks subtly different from the initial, while the rear opinion and edge profile are noticeably altered merit to the sole exhaust behavior and enormous wheels.

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RIDES introduce custom Hyundai Genesis Sedan to debut at SEMA

Hyundai is charming to make certainly that its new Genesis luxury vehicle is taken honestly by the people who buy such cars. To help site the Genesis as a viable rival to the established competition from Lexus, Acura and Audi, the manufacturer has teamed up with RIDES Magazine to design a high-tech Genesis show car for debut at SEMA.

The RIDES Genesis Sedan doesn’t sport much in the way of performance upgrades, but it’s packed to the gills with the hottest in portable technology. RIDES has outfitted the big Hyundai as a cell executive suite, with high-tempo WiFi and theater-worth sound. Each rear-seat passenger has a notebook with an 8.4-creep VGA headrest observer, and there’s a third Mac Mini mounted on the rear deck with a wireless upright and mouse in the middle console. An iPhone 3G and iPod Touch are also along for the provoke. The RIDES Genesis also has another processor in the stalk, and a 20-edge Apple Cinema present on a sliding tray.

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Toyota Venza Sportlux by Street Image to debut at SEMA 2008

Street Image presented magic tuned Toyota Venza for SEMA debut. The support adapted don’t-call-it-a-Camry carriage comes courtesy of Street Image, which will earn the SportLux Venza “performance show car” to SEMA. A contradiction in provisos if we’ve ever heard it.

According to Toyota PR, the SportLux is a perfect that could be untaken as a factory tuner, inclusive with six-example body kit, spoiler, custom frame and, of course, a cover ladle.

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New Powerful Dodge Challenger SRT10 Concept will be presented at SEMA

Dodge will be unveiled their Challenger SRT10 Concept car at SEMA show. The SRT10 has borrowed the Viper‘s 8.4-liter all-aluminum V10 engine that pumps out 600hp and 560lb of torque. The ‘halo’ idea car skin a new coat of garish Tornado Red paint with a carbon-structure deck lid and a functional shaker covering inspired from the 1970s HEMI Cuda.

To compensate for the beyond intensity, the party’s engineers upgraded the braking approach and added Bilstein shocks at all four corners to farther managing remainder. The Challenger SRT10‘s interior has been enhanced with a set of sport seats and carbon-grain edge accents throughout as well as a red engine start endorse-close in the dash.

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