SEMA is a massive show with thousands of booths all competing for attendee’s attention. It really takes something special to stand out from the crowd. A modified super car certainly gets that wow factor!
I’ve touched on this many times before, but the current generation of Lamborghini really suit their modifications well. From the factory they are very ostentatious and aggressive so adding bigger wheels and body kits only adds to that presence.
The V10 in the Huracan reponds really well to being twin turbo’d, with companies like Underground Racing and Sheepy Race building twin turbo kits that boost the Huracan well into the four figure horsepower range.
The Audi R8 is pretty much a Huracan in a different body shell. I personally fell the Huracan is a bit more dramatic in nature than the R8, which is comparison looks much more subdued. The R8 doesn’t seem to hold its value as well as the Lamborghini though and offers a great value way to get into a proper super car. The twin turbo kits I mentioned above also fit the R8 if you want to go really fast on a bit of a budget. (I say on a bit of a budget, we’re still talking hundreds of thousands of dollars)
The Huracan’s bigger brother the Aventador.
The Aventador’s predecessor was the Murcielago.
Before that was the Diablo.
Hanging out in the Hoonigan area was this heavily modified Toyota 2JZ powered Gallardo. Personally, it’s not my style, however there’s an incredible amount of time and fabrication skill that’s been used to create this and it was certainly turning a lot of heads throughout the week! A car to break the internet I’m sure!
Speaking of breaking the internet – a fair few influencer builds fall into the super car category. Here we have the Stradman’s Aventador.
The DDE Huracan.
Alex Choi is a regular at SEMA. This year he brought along his McLaren.
The Hamilton Collection were also displaying a couple of cars.
Ferrari are notoriously a bit strict with what they’ll approve of people doing with their cars. For instance this electric, barchetta styled Testarossa built by Richard Rawlings of Gas Monkey Garage, was actually removed from the Testarossa registry. Ferrari no longer see it as one of their creations!
There were a fair few other modified Ferraris in the show. These hadn’t undergone such extreme transformations though.
There were also a couple of modified Ferraris on the Toyo Tires Treadpass this year. You can read about that part of the show here: https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/2023/11/11/sema-2023-toyo-tires-treadpass/
McLaren are another band that seem to be popular with tuners.
It’s always nice to see Maserati’s MC20. I was first introduced to this car at Salon Prive London earlier this year: https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/2023/04/21/the-new-cars-of-salon-prive-2023/
There are a couple of cars that are always a bit of a discussion point as to whether they are super cars or not. The C8 Corvette is one of those cars. Mid-engined, two seater. It’s a super car that’s (somewhat) attainable for the masses.
The Corvettes of SEMA got their own blog post this year as it was the Corvette’s 70th anniversary this year. You can read about them here: https://motorsportformentalhealth.com/2023/11/08/sema-2023-70th-anniversary-of-corvette/
The other one is the Porsche 911. I think the more track focused cars like the GT3RS and GT2RS are definitely super cars!
This 911 restro-mod by Gunther Werks was a bit spicy!
The infamous Carrera GT.
Although not a super car, there was also this bubble topped Boxster. It was really unique and I wanted to feature it on the blog, I just wasn’t sure where! With these other Porsches seems like the most appropriate place for it.
The Raesr Tachyon prototype electric hyper car.
Speaking of prototypes, there were a couple of LeMans style protype race cars at SEMA.
Along with a collection of GT race cars which are of course based on road going super cars.
Now I’m going to leave you all today with a little bit of a mystery. This car was parked outside of the Central Hall. It’s lovely, but I haven’t got a clue what it is! If any of you have any suggestions please let me know haha!
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