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The annual Specialty Equipment Market Association, or more commonly known as SEMA, is widely regarded as the one of the world’s largest automotive trade show that attracts more than 2400 car manufacturers and aftermarket parts suppliers from around the world.

Held over four days in the first week of November at the Las Vegas Convention Centre, SEMA is a confluence of nearly every facet of the automotive world, showcasing wild hotrod projects, customised 4×4 big rigs, highly-tuned performance cars, and the latest in electronic gadgets.

With such a wide variety of specialties and genres, the number of aftermarket products featured at SEMA usually number in the thousands with just about any aftermarket automotive product imaginable.

Being a trade-show, SEMA is not open to the public. Instead attendees are required to register themselves as a buyer, exhibitor or media before the show. Official site: https://www.semashow.com

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Takata class action grows to seven manufacturers

Volkswagen added to local consumer class action claim for compensation over potentially deadly airbags

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2019 Volkswagen T-Cross compact SUV revealed

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Ares Design Ferrari 412 from GTC4Lusso
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Ares Design creates Ferrari 412 from a GTC4Lusso

Project Pony revives the style of the iconic 412 on the modern base of a Lusso

Comparisons

Audi RS5 vs BMW M4 vs Mercedes-AMG C63 comparison

Audi lobs a 331kW grenade into the ubercoupe sector in the chiselled form of its latest RS5. Should BMW and Mercedes-AMG be worried?

Motorsport

Daniel Ricciardo’s horrible, no good, very bad season continues

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Reviews

2004 Honda Integra Type S review: classic MOTOR

Take one part luxury and one part performance and you get sizzle, with a capital S

Comparisons

2018 Hyundai i30 N vs Renault Megane RS 280 comparison

What better test of the Renaultsport Megane’s mettle than a clash with our reigning hot-hatch champ, the Hyundai i30 N?

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Features

Cool car things we want: November 2018

The wild, the weird, and the wonderful

Comparisons

Mazda 3 Touring v Hyundai i30 Active comparison review

They’re not the newest cars on the block but they’re still among the biggest sellers, so which of these popular small cars has the edge in terms of value, comfort, safety and driveability?

Reviews

2018 Renault Megane RS 280 review

Can Renault’s freshly poured Megane RS280 top a hot-hatch segment sparkling with talent, or is that just Fanta sea?

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Reviews

2004 Le Mans CL-1 prototype review: classic MOTOR

The secretive Le Mans Co is out to prove it can build great sports cars

Features

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Lucas di Grassi wants close racing, with driver or without

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McLaren reveals $3.2 million Speedtail hypercar

The spiritual successor to the original hypercar, the McLaren F1, the Speedtail is Woking’s next-gen intercontinental ballistic missile

Features

2018 Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy review

We drive an electric SUV race car. Purists look away now.

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McLaren Speedtail leaked hours before its reveal

Tonight McLaren will reveal a car we’ve now seen plenty of

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The Maltese HSV GTSR Maloo

435kW super ute makes its way to the Mediterranean

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2019 Kia Rio adds sporty GT-Line turbo to the range

The sporty GT-Line brings some firsts to the Rio range, including a gutsy three-cylinder turbo engine, seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and AEB

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2019 Volkswagen Golf prices and features announced

Volkswagen Australia slims down the number of Golf variants, bringing the price of entry up, while diesels disappear.

Twin-turbo carbon fibre Dodge Challenger Demon fastest in the world
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Twin-turbo, carbon fibre Dodge Challenger Demon is fastest in the world

Speedkore says its carbon-bodied 897kW Demon is the fastest ever built

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Ford Mondeo to live on as Takata recall ramps up

Ford’s medium-sized sedan and wagon will score mid-life refresh next year, as the company tracks down 16,000 Mondeo owners as part of Takata airbag recall

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Porsche 992 911 testing at Nürburgring is naturally aspirated, manual

Unexpected atmo 992 could mean a few things for Porsche’s future

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Mazda RX-8 SP Targa car for sale

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