Wheels of SEMA 2026: Swirl Faces, Gold Wire and a 250th Birthday in Red, White and Blue

Every SEMA has a car you remember, but the wheel walls are where you see where the scene is heading. On Thursday, Nov. 5, we spent a good part of the day in the halls where the big-diameter brands stack their wheels to the ceiling, and in the outdoor lots where lifted Super Dutys sit on them for real.

A few things stood out. Two-tone faces were everywhere: brushed aluminum with black, blue or copper in the windows, and solid colors that match a truck's suspension. Wire wheels are not only for lowriders anymore, showing up in copper on a slammed C10. And the America 250 idea made it onto at least one forged truck wheel.

This is a photo essay, so the pictures do most of the talking. The captions stick to what is printed on the wheels, the booths and the brands' own sites. We did not get pricing or sizes from the floor, so you will not find any here.

Corleone Forged

Corleone Forged calls itself a maker of premium custom forged wheels, and its booth was a wall of big multi-piece designs with exposed hardware, chrome lips and color in the windows.

JTX Forged

JTX Forged sorts its catalog into single, dually, monoforged and beadlock series. Besides the 1776 to 2026 wheel up top, the booth had a black Escalade tucked down over a red-faced JTX wheel. We could not find a JTX release on the 250th wheel, so we are showing it as we saw it.

Velore

A matte gray Mercedes-Maybach we spotted on the show floor rolled on gold multi-spoke wheels from Velore.

Luxor Wire Wheels

Luxor Wire Wheels, based in Compton, California, builds wire wheels for custom and classic cars. The banner behind its display reads "a division of DNA," and DNA Specialty of Compton holds a run of wire wheel design patents. The display placard calls this gold design the HMD Wheel, patent pending.

Kompression

Kompression, based in Oxnard, California, sells a forged wheel collection along with steering wheels and motorcycle wheels. Its booth paired a wall of chrome wire-style designs with a slammed white C10 on copper wire-style wheels. Kompression also turned up elsewhere at the show: the build placard on Wilco Classics & Speed's (@wilcoclassics) 1984 C10 lists Kompression wheels.

TIS

TIS splits its wheels into TIS Offroad, TIS Motorsports and TIS Forged, and sells TIS tires made by Hercules. Its outdoor display was a full lot of lifted and lowered trucks, Jeeps and widebody cars.

Liberty Forged

Liberty Forged is based in Claremore, Oklahoma, and says its wheels are made in the USA in a machine shop with aerospace roots. Its SEMA 2026 showpiece was a red wheel with dice and a white diamond on the face and "SEMA 2026" on the lip. A second casino-themed design flipped the colors: black, with a white spade, dice and "SEMA 2026" on the lip.

American Force and Venom Power

American Force lists monoblock forged construction across its catalog and recently added a two-piece forged Sport Truck Series aimed at lowered trucks. Outside, its gold mesh wheel sat on a black Super Duty called Black Nugget, the name printed on the center cap. The tire on that same truck is a Venom Power Swampthing M/T, which Venom Power calls a max traction mud terrain. Venom Power's tires and branded chocks showed up all over the lifted truck lots.

Revenge

Revenge (@revengeluxurywheels) sells custom wheels under its Revenge Luxury and Revenge Off-Road lines. On its booth sat a silver Shelby F-150 with black stripes, revengewheels.com across the windshield and a @brianop_24 decal, on a brushed multi-piece design with exposed hardware.

If there is one takeaway from the wheel halls, it is that the truck side of the hobby keeps pulling ideas from the donk and lowrider worlds, from swirl faces to wire spokes to custom center caps with a truck's name on them.