Nov. 3 to 6, 2026, Las Vegas Convention Center
Every build, debut and winner we covered from the 2026 SEMA Show floor and the lots outside, most of it photographed by us in Las Vegas.
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Shawn Bassett bought a rough 1972 Datsun 240Z for $1,100 and built it, carbon body and all, in his home garage. Eight years after its SEMA debut, the #269 Attacking the Clock Racing Z is a turbo 427 LS hill climb and time attack car that just ran 10:35 at Pikes Peak.
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We walked Honda Racing Corporation's 12-vehicle SEMA 2026 booth car by car, from the 1969 N600 that was American Honda's first race car to the hybrid Passport Baja Spec Trophy Truck, rated at more than 1,300 hp. In between: an Indy 500 winner, Acura's farewell GTP car, a championship Patron LMP, a manual Type R Prelude and Honda's new parts line.
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Engraved gold wheels, Black Nugget and Black Ice, a pink GMC HD, Pavement Princess, Ghetto Hauler and more lifted, lowered and big-wheel trucks from SEMA 2026.
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Our definitive report from the 2026 SEMA Show: Eddie Pettus's Battle of the Builders win, Industry Honors, PRO Cup and Best Engineered, plus the factory builds and opening-day reveals. Then a scene-by-scene walk through 49 of our own photos, from the outdoor truck lots and the Toyo Treadpass to lowriders, kei cars and a C8 Corvette fajita truck.
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S-Klub LA's 'Game Over' is a McLaren 750S rebodied as the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR coupe, on white HRE wheels and Toyo tires, revealed at SEMA 2026. Here is what is published about the build, what we saw in the Treadpass tent on Nov. 5, and why the CLK GTR is such a tempting car to recreate.
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Trunk murals, chrome hydraulics, gold wire wheels and a kustom Batmobile: the lowriders and kustoms we found at SEMA 2026.
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A photo essay from the wheel booths and lifted truck lots at SEMA 2026 on Nov. 5: Corleone Forged, JTX Forged, Luxor Wire Wheels, TIS, Liberty Forged, American Force, Revenge, Kompression and Venom Power.
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The automakers' SEMA 2026 builds leaned hard into dirt and snow, led by Jeep's independent-front-suspension Wrangler Scrambler SRT Concept and Ford's Megazilla 2.0 Bronco Frostwarden. Here is what Jeep, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda and Ringbrothers brought, and why it matters.
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Nine builds that stopped us at SEMA 2026, from Nick Cryer's twin-turbo 1933 Ford and the C8 Corvette food truck Vettro to the Killer Creations triple-turbo Apache, OMF's Battle of the Builders Bronco and two Texas trucks with Whipple-blown engines.
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Killer Creations' 1958 Chevy Apache started as a father and son's 'one last truck' in a Simi Valley shop's parking lot. Today it runs a built 6.7-liter Cummins with a 73mm turbo feeding two 68mm turbos, a tube rear chassis, Wilwood brakes and a hydraulic handbrake. We found it at the 2026 SEMA Show on Nov. 5.
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Honda Racing Corporation USA debuted the Passport Baja Spec at SEMA 2026: a 1,300-plus hp hybrid Trophy Truck with a 2.4-liter twin-turbo V6, a Mason AWD chassis and a June 2027 Baja 500 debut. We break down the hardware and what Honda still hasn't said.
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The opening-day reveals at SEMA 2026: WD-40 and Throtl's twin-turbo, gated-manual Liberty Walk Murcielago, Idemitsu and Throtl's Civic Type R powered Prelude, Meguiar's 125th anniversary pair, and Foose and Coulson's Eaton Fire 1955 Delray.
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We walked the 13th Toyo Tires Treadpass at SEMA 2026 and photographed S-Klub LA's CLK GTR-bodied McLaren 750S, Bisimoto's K20C1 Murcielago, Eccentric's RX-7, two Skylines, an EB110 and five Porsches. Here are the builds, the builders and the specs as Toyo published them.
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Vettro is an early-1950s International Metro van on the chassis and mid-mounted 6.2-liter V8 of a wrecked 2021 C8 Corvette, and it still serves food. At SEMA 2026 it sat under Guinness 'Official Attempt' signs. Here is how it was built and where the record stands.
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Eddie Pettus's twin-turbo LS3 1970 Chevelle won the 2026 SEMA Battle of the Builders presented by Mothers. Here's the full Top 12, the category winners and the inaugural Bike Builder Shootout results.
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Photos from the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car paddock and the OPTIMA display at SEMA 2026, led by David Carroll's twin-turbo 1974 K5 Blazer No. 126.
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At SEMA Industry Honors on Nov. 5, Jay Leno received his Hall of Fame jacket with Tim Allen, Tony Stewart got the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award, Dawson Druesedow was named Person of the Year and Tom's Refurb took Content Creator of the Year.
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Felix Rosenqvist's No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Honda won the 2026 Indianapolis 500 by 0.0233 second over David Malukas, the closest finish in the race's history. We found the car on the HRC display at SEMA on Nov. 5. The finish, the numbers and Honda's 2026 sweep, all from the record.
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Pandem's Pocket Bunny Suzuki Twins, Skylines from R32 to R34, a C210 kaido racer at NRG, drift cars and a widebody RX-7 from SEMA 2026.
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