By James Tate of MSN Autos
Each year, the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) hosts one of the largest automotive equipment and car shows in the country. Held in deliciously decadent Sin City (where else, right?), the SEMA Show has become such a big deal that aftermarket suppliers, tuners, hot-rod builders and even mainstream carmakers wrench tirelessly all year to craft the most elaborate machines they can imagine in hopes of showing each other up at the Las Vegas Convention Center. SEMA 2009 featured some of the craziest custom machinery we've seen to date, including a Subaru STI with tank tracks and a midengine Hyundai Genesis Coupe. Here are our picks for the 10 most outlandish vehicles from the flashiest city on the planet.
Ken Block’s Trax Subaru STI
Subaru has built its reputation on products that are capable on any terrain — including snow and ice. Rally driver Ken Block and DC Shoes took that reputation to extremes by fitting a heavily modified WRX STI with Trax — a tank-tread-like system that gives the car plenty of ground clearance and the ability to conquer everything in its path. Block says the car was built for frolicking around in the backcountry where there are no roads, and we're having a hard time coming up with a car better-suited for that task.
Video; Trax STI In Action
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Toyota Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer
We like video games. We like cars. Sometimes, when the product is the Forza or Gran Turismo series, we like it when the two meet. But with the Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer, Toyota has proved just what can go wrong when the auto and digital worlds tango. Looking like a cross between a middle-schooler's daydream and West Coast Customs' latest creation, the gull-wing-equipped truck packs four Xbox gaming systems, plenty of flat-screen TVs and a Monster Energy drink dispenser. There's even a 60-inch flat-panel screen that mounts in the truck's receiver hitch so spectators can watch the gaming action from behind.
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