The Toyota Crown Signia Finally Embraces The Wagon Look For SEMA Not just a station wagon, but one with bulging fenders, 21-inch wheels, and brakes borrowed from a Lexus. Motor1 · Oct 28
Dodge Charger Celebrates Mopar's 90th Anniversary With Just 270 Cars Mopar '27 turns the Dodge Charger R/T and Scat Pack Plus into numbered specials with a $10,995 package and 270-unit run. Motor1 · Oct 28
Mitsubishi Turned The Outlander Into An Off-Road SUV For SEMA With revised bumpers and all-terrain tires, the 2028 Outlander Diamond Trail Edition is made for the dirt. Motor1 · Oct 26
The Mustang Aftermarket Is Entering a New Era of Precision and Preservation Ford sold 44,003 gas-powered Mustangs in the U.S. during 2024, down 9.5% from 2023. Sales recovered slightly in 2025 to 45,333, according to Ford sales data. The shift has raised larger questions around what keeps an established performance car culturally relevant as buyers encounter an increasingly diversified automotive landscape. International Business Times · Sep 24
Classic Cars Are Getting Modernized. Here's What A Restomod Really Is It's how you get the looks and personality of an old car without having to live with all of its old-car shortcomings. Motor1 · Sep 10
Mining Claims Have Already Been Filed For Two Monuments Drastically Reduced By Trump Administration At least nine mining claims have been filed for previously closed sections of Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments after the Trump Administration reduced them by over 90% just a month ago. RideApart · Aug 18
Utah's Representatives Sold Off-Roaders, Hunters, Campers, And Their Constituents Out With Latest Attack on Public Lands A host of Utah's elected representatives recently worked with the Trump Administration to, once again, shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Parks by 90%, selling out their constituents and selling them a lie that you couldn't do anything, when the only thing barred was mining extraction and development. RideApart · Jul 17
The Off-Roading Executive Order Is A Land Sell-Off In Disguise. Don't Be Fooled The Trump White House has issued both an executive order on off-roading, as well as rescinding a prior executive order, to 'remove unnecessary and counterproductive restrictions on access to federal lands.' It's a land sell-off in disguise. RideApart · Jun 3
Kansas Is Protecting Race Tracks From Idiotic HOAs and Nosey Karens The world is shrinking as more homes are built around the U.S. in places where they once weren't. And attacks on local racetracks from HOAs and Karens complaining about noise has become common. Kansas of all places, however, is fighting back. RideApart · Apr 16
SEMA Is Fighting To Save America's Local Race Tracks Race tracks across America are endangered. Every few months, there’s grim news of another small road course getting bulldozed in favor of Amazon warehouses or apartment buildings. It all seems futile, especially when even iconic tracks like WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca are under fire. Motor1 · Dec 29, 2025
2025 FIA Awards Ceremony: When and how to watch live, free streaming The 2025 FIA Awards Ceremony in Tashkent, Uzbekistan will honour world champions including newly crowned F1 title winner Lando Norris Motorsport · Dec 11, 2025
The Ringbrothers 'Kingpin' Mustang Is an 800-Horsepower Piece of Art SEMA week is here. Some of the greatest (and some of the jankiest) builds in the automotive universe all gather in Las Vegas for one big aftermarket showdown. The cast of usual suspects are all on the show floor, with the Ringbrothers being one of the most prolific builders in… Motor1 · Nov 4, 2025
Ford Maverick Street Truck Gets 300 HP With the Mustang's Turbo Ford revived the street truck formula a little over a year ago with the launch of the Maverick Lobo. For this year’s SEMA, the Blue Oval is taking things a step further by equipping its smallest pickup with a host of Ford Performance Parts. Compatible with the AWD XL, XLT,… Motor1 · Nov 4, 2025
This Toyota bZ Is Anything But Boring It’s six inches lower than the standard electric crossover, and the power output has been upped by a fair bit. InsideEVs · Oct 31, 2025
Motor1 · Oct 30, 2025 This Potent Nissan Patrol Paws at 1,000 Horsepower Chris Forsberg has a healthy habit of unveiling top-notch machinery in the halls of SEMA. The three-time Formula Drift champion has long had a strong relationship with Nissan, and his excellent custom builds reflect that—spanning everything from old sports cars to modern trucks. This year, Forsberg created a custom Nissan…
Motor1 · Oct 29, 2025 Ram's New V-8 Street Truck Concept Is for the Dudes Ram performed a course correction earlier this year by reviving the Hemi-powered 1500 pickup. It reintroduced the 5.7-liter V-8 to the model for 2026, and the truck brand is highlighting its return with a wicked-looking SEMA concept. It’s called "The Dude," and it takes inspiration from the Dude sport trim package Dodge offered…
Motor1 · Oct 27, 2025 Infiniti Shoved a 1,000-HP GT-R Engine Into a QX80 SUV The Infiniti QX80 is a luxury vehicle first and foremost, but for SEMA this year, Infiniti is rolling out the QX-80 R-Spec, a performance SUV that does its best Nissan GT-R impression. It packs a tuned twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter VR38DETT Nismo V-6 engine under the hood and a host of other…
Motor1 · Oct 19, 2025 A Wild Dodge Charger and a Ram 1500 V-8 Are Headed to SEMA Heritage is the name of the game in 2025 as Stellantis works to right the ship and win back American buyers. After a management shuffle brought back Tim Kuniskis as Ram Trucks CEO, he, in turn, brought back the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 to the 1500 pickups after a one-year absence.
Motor1 · Jun 21, 2025 We Get a Look Inside SEMA's Secret Garage in California: Video When you think SEMA, you think about the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas in November, where the organization hosts its yearly industry show for the aftermarket sector. While the show is important, it's only a small part of the SEMA operation.
RideApart · Jun 18, 2025 Why Aren't These Off-Road and Adventure Companies Standing Up For Public Lands? RideApart's Jonathon Klein is done with outdoor influencers, brands, and companies using the outdoors to enrich themselves only to fall silent when they're threatened.
Motor1 · May 22, 2025 The Federal Government Just Killed California's EV Mandate The Senate has blocked California’s plan to phase out gas-powered cars by 2035. Using an obscure rule allowing a simple majority 51-44 vote to prevail rather than the usual 60-vote threshold, the Federal government has effectively killed all EV mandates, with a legal battle surely to follow.
RideApart · Apr 18, 2025 The 'Public Lands Rule' Is Set to Be Rescinded, and We're Still Fighting Each Other Honestly, I'm more than happy to get hate mail most days. It means you're reading RideApart, and a hate click is still a click. And daddy loves those clicks.
RideApart · Apr 12, 2025 SEMA Still Supports the Guy Trying to Sell Off Your Public Land A few days ago, REI came out and apologized for supporting the nomination and subsequent appointment of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. Their reversal comes after Burgum's actions and statements about selling off public lands, using them for mineral and logging extraction, and his joint statement with the Housing and…
Newslaundry · Apr 12, 2025 Hafta 532: Trump’s tariff blunders, Supreme Court’s remarks on Tamil Nadu Governor This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Semafor’s business reporter Rohan Goswami and political consultant and federalism expert Tara Krishnaswamy.
Motor1 · Feb 22, 2025 We Went to Japan's SEMA. It Was Incredible Tokyo Auto Salon is one of the great wonders of the car world. It’s the land of the Japanese performance aftermarket, the Mecca of tuners like HKS, RE Amemiya, and Top Secret. And it’s been on my bucket list since I started reading blogs in the early 2010s.