Reflecting on SEMA 2019
The SEMA experience begins well before a single step is taken inside the world-famous Las Vegas Convention Center. Attendees start their journey toward Vehicle Valhalla immersed in everything automotive from well outside the convention space’s doors.
A person could spend an entire day outside taking in the high-dollar drift machines, immaculate classics, mind-bending customs, and mouthwatering exotics, like the BB328T perched atop the CTP Concepts Nighttrain. Each worthy of careful consideration, each nearly impossible to appreciate in their totality, each resting like an apex predator waiting to stretch its legs.
We all knew that SEMA 2020 would be awash in a roiling sea of MKV Supras. That expectation didn’t lessen the impact and excitement of the return of a JDM legend and the unique visions it has already inspired. (Yes, we know a JDM-DTM collaboration was needed to bring the successor to the iconic MKIV to life.)
It wasn’t just turbo and custom exhaust system sizes that mattered at SEMA 2019. Monstrous trucks and SUVs dwarfed several six- and seven-figure car builds with sky-piercing lifts, world-conquering rubber, and garish grilles. From overlanders to brodozers, trucks and the myriad parts and tech available for sky’s-the-limit modding commanded attention.
