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November 17, 2009
All Up In Their Booth: Lexus at SEMA 2009
By John Coyle
Deputy Editor
Like last year, Lexus’ booth was outside by the proving grounds, and the roar of the Bondurant Corvettes was audible over the tunes the DJ was playing. There was a definite attempt to give the space a club vibe, which was compromised slightly by the fact that the turntables didn’t have heads on them, and the cocktails were actually mocktails, but whatever. There was a grip of customized IS-Cs—including Brian Fox’s hyper-green example—on hand this year, but the red-hot LF-A was the star of the show. The matte black doesn’t photograph particularly well, but in person, it looked sick. The styling in the front is somewhat restrained, which makes the aggressive lines of its hind-quarters look even better. Hit the jump to see more shots of the new supercar, along with the pics of some fresh creations from Brian Fox, David Huang, Gordon Ting, Clark Ishihara and David Rahemi, and TRD.
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January 13, 2009
TRD NASCAR Motor with Extra Edelbrock
Atomicalex
I was checking out the Toyota booth and spotted one of their NASCAR bodies off in the corner. I started walking over to it and got sidetracked by the Edelbrock intake runners on the TRD engine display next to it. That wasn’t the only traditional American V8 tuner part on it, though. Crane cams, a Holley carb, and a Wilson Manifolds carb spacer. I know a lot of stuff is spec’d in by NASCAR, but you’d think the brains at TRD could figure out how to cast hi-po intake runners or at least a carb spacer! Closeups of the motor and car after the jump.
