This week sees the launch of the automotive world’s most off-the-wall, playful gathering – SEMA. As soon as often called the Specialty Tools Producer’s Affiliation, SEMA now insists its title doesn’t stand for something. It’s simply SEMA, like Beyoncé – one among a sort and needing no additional clarification.
SEMA is an auto present in Las Vegas the place the automotive tuning neighborhood showcases its newest wares and wildest accomplishments. You gained’t discover inventory manufacturing unit automobiles on the present; simply one-off creations whipped up by automotive artists to showcase their prowess and inventiveness.
Automakers present up with customized automobiles, although the very best stuff normally comes from retailers you’ve by no means heard of.
We don’t cowl SEMA intimately as a result of, for essentially the most half, it’s stuffed with automobiles you’ll be able to’t purchase. Nonetheless, two automakers have used this 12 months’s present to disclose issues you possibly can put in your storage.
Honda’s North American racing division used the present to unveil its personal lineup of highway automotive elements. Now, Ford has introduced a set of customized improve packages for automobiles already on the highway.
Ford Customized Storage will create customized makeovers for particular automobiles. The corporate plans no less than 9, with packages for the Bronco, Bronco Sport, and F-150.
The corporate provided particulars on two to begin.
Bronco Matte Black, Sinister Bronze
Every package deal applies to the current-generation Bronco and contains purposeful upgrades and beauty adjustments.
The packages embrace:
- A Ford Efficiency Components off-road 2-inch leveling suspension equipment
- A Ford Efficiency Components calibration device
- 5 17 x 8.5-inch customized wheels and black lug nuts
- Particular grille lettercaps, badges, and a smoked Ford oval
- Prolonged fender flares
- An up to date spare tire provider
Because the package deal names indicate, the black model replaces the grille, wheels, and different exterior trim bits with matte black items. The bronze version will get bronze wheels and B-R-O-N-C-O lettering.
Tuners routinely modify Broncos, creating one-of-a-kind automobiles with distinctive efficiency capabilities and visible themes. Nonetheless, Ford notes that the kits “might be ordered with only one half quantity that represents every little thing wanted to upfit and modify a brand new or present era bought car, from wheels to engine tune.”
Ford says every package deal retails for $5,200, excluding 35-inch Goodyear All-Terrain tires bought individually and supplier labor.
The corporate plans different packages quickly, together with a Bronco Sport package deal with blue wheels and badges and a sport-performance F-150 with a Whipple twin-screw supercharger and side-exit cat-back exhaust.
