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The Ringbrothers 'Kingpin' Mustang Is an 800-Horsepower Piece of Art

SEMA week is here. Some of the greatest (and some of the jankiest) builds in the automotive universe all gather in Las Vegas for one big aftermarket showdown. The cast of usual suspects are all on the show floor, with the Ringbrothers being one of the most prolific builders in…

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Ford Maverick Street Truck Gets 300 HP With the Mustang's Turbo

Ford revived the street truck formula a little over a year ago with the launch of the Maverick Lobo. For this year’s SEMA, the Blue Oval is taking things a step further by equipping its smallest pickup with a host of Ford Performance Parts. Compatible with the AWD XL, XLT,…

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This Toyota bZ Is Anything But Boring

It’s six inches lower than the standard electric crossover, and the power output has been upped by a fair bit.

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This Potent Nissan Patrol Paws at 1,000 Horsepower

Chris Forsberg has a healthy habit of unveiling top-notch machinery in the halls of SEMA. The three-time Formula Drift champion has long had a strong relationship with Nissan, and his excellent custom builds reflect that—spanning everything from old sports cars to modern trucks. This year, Forsberg created a custom Nissan…

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Ram's New V-8 Street Truck Concept Is for the Dudes

Ram performed a course correction earlier this year by reviving the Hemi-powered 1500 pickup. It reintroduced the 5.7-liter V-8 to the model for 2026, and the truck brand is highlighting its return with a wicked-looking SEMA concept. It’s called "The Dude," and it takes inspiration from the Dude sport trim package Dodge offered…

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Infiniti Shoved a 1,000-HP GT-R Engine Into a QX80 SUV

The Infiniti QX80 is a luxury vehicle first and foremost, but for SEMA this year, Infiniti is rolling out the QX-80 R-Spec, a performance SUV that does its best Nissan GT-R impression. It packs a tuned twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter VR38DETT Nismo V-6 engine under the hood and a host of other…

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A Wild Dodge Charger and a Ram 1500 V-8 Are Headed to SEMA

Heritage is the name of the game in 2025 as Stellantis works to right the ship and win back American buyers. After a management shuffle brought back Tim Kuniskis as Ram Trucks CEO, he, in turn, brought back the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 to the 1500 pickups after a one-year absence.

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We Get a Look Inside SEMA's Secret Garage in California: Video

When you think SEMA, you think about the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas in November, where the organization hosts its yearly industry show for the aftermarket sector. While the show is important, it's only a small part of the SEMA operation.

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Why Aren't These Off-Road and Adventure Companies Standing Up For Public Lands?

RideApart's Jonathon Klein is done with outdoor influencers, brands, and companies using the outdoors to enrich themselves only to fall silent when they're threatened.

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The Federal Government Just Killed California's EV Mandate

The Senate has blocked California’s plan to phase out gas-powered cars by 2035. Using an obscure rule allowing a simple majority 51-44 vote to prevail rather than the usual 60-vote threshold, the Federal government has effectively killed all EV mandates, with a legal battle surely to follow.

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The 'Public Lands Rule' Is Set to Be Rescinded, and We're Still Fighting Each Other

Honestly, I'm more than happy to get hate mail most days. It means you're reading RideApart, and a hate click is still a click. And daddy loves those clicks.

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SEMA Still Supports the Guy Trying to Sell Off Your Public Land

A few days ago, REI came out and apologized for supporting the nomination and subsequent appointment of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. Their reversal comes after Burgum's actions and statements about selling off public lands, using them for mineral and logging extraction, and his joint statement with the Housing and…

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Hafta 532: Trump’s tariff blunders, Supreme Court’s remarks on Tamil Nadu Governor

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Semafor’s business reporter Rohan Goswami and political consultant and federalism expert Tara Krishnaswamy.

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We Went to Japan's SEMA. It Was Incredible

Tokyo Auto Salon is one of the great wonders of the car world. It’s the land of the Japanese performance aftermarket, the Mecca of tuners like HKS, RE Amemiya, and Top Secret. And it’s been on my bucket list since I started reading blogs in the early 2010s.

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SEMA Is Becoming the Center of the Automotive Universe

SEMA is many things all at once. It’s the home to almost the entire aftermarket industry, playing host to a billion-dollar (with a B) industry. It’s also the home of the Bluetooth driveshaft and the overfender nationals. What it hasn’t been, historically, is a home for automakers to display their…

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I Want To Go Off-Grid In Kia's PV5 WKNDR Electric Van

Falling in love with a concept car is setting yourself up to fail. The vast majority of them never become real vehicles, and those that do often end up disappointingly far from their striking original designs. For every BMW i8, we also get about 50 Pontiac Azteks. But love isn't…

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Kia PV5 WKNDR EV's 'Hydro Turbine' Wheels Can Generate Electricity With Air Or Water

Off-roaders may not be Kia’s forte, but now the Korean auto giant is showing an intent to head into that space. Sure, the Sportage and the Telluride can trundle past some mild trails, but with the PV5 WKNDR electric van, Kia is showing us just how versatile a battery-powered electric…

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Kia shows off new off-road EV concepts and they look like the perfect apocalypse escape rides

An off-road ready EV9 and a futuristic camper van based on the marque's upcoming electric commercial vehicle platform entertained crowds.

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This Custom Land Cruiser Looks Like a Cyberpunk Fever Dream

Modellista, Toyota's in-house customization brand in Japan, is at this year's SEMA Show in Las Vegas to test out possible new products for the American market. And boy does it have something... special. The company dressed up a new Toyota Land Cruiser in an assortment of futuristic off-road goodies, turning…

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Kia's Off-Road Van And EV9 Are The Perfect Electric Escape

Kia isn't much of a name in the overlanding scene. Despite experimenting with a body-on-frame V-8 SUV in the Aughts with the short-lived Borrego (sold through this year as the Mohave in other markets), off-roading hasn't really been a focus for the Korean brand. The Telluride may look tough, but…

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This Is the Prettiest Plymouth Barracuda Restomod You'll Ever See

Muscle car EV swaps are all the rage these days. In fact, Mopar built a battery-powered Plymouth GTX for SEMA this year. But Ringbrothers isn't going the electrified route. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Wisconsin-based tuning shop has given this 1970 Plymouth Barracuda restomod a proper muscle car makeover.

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Tokyo firm Built By Legends gives fresh life to a performance icon, Nissan’s R34 GT-R

This Japanese restomod brings upgrades and enhancements to the Nissan R34 GT-R, ensuring the cult of the Skyline stays forever renewed

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Drop Everything and Look at This V-10 Miata With Turbos for Headlights

Thanks to SEMA, the world now has a Mazda Miata with a twin-turbocharged Lamborghini V-10. The engine is sticking out of the hood, and the pop-up headlights are now turbos. That's downright inspiring, and we're here for it.

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Toyota Built the AWD GR86 Rally Car of Our Dreams

Toyota is pulling out all the stops for SEMA—as it usually does. We've already seen the 4Runner TRD Surf, the Land Cruiser Rox, and a handful of other off-road-equipped trucks headed for Vegas. Now the company is throwing it back to the glory days of the 1980s with a rally-inspired…

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Nissan Built a Supercharged Frontier Drift Truck

Nissan is no stranger to fun one-off builds. Its latest, developed for this year's SEMA show in Las Vegas, is a highly modified Frontier pickup designed to go drifting. The one-off truck comes complete with a custom suspension setup, a supercharged engine, and a set of lovely retro Recaro seats.

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