Pictures by:@SiRMarlon

OK, OK, we’re sure you’ve heard all the tales and horror stories about the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association Show, better known as the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. For the most part those stories are true. It is the industry-only, weeklong, automotive grindfest you’ve been told it is. And that is what is awesome about it!

Spoon 2015 Fit at SEMA Show 2014

We were there to try to see everything Honda and Honda-related which meant covering inside, outside, in-between, and behind all four massive halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Amongst the massive 4X4s, restored muscle cars, firm and infirm scooter riders, legit part manufacturers, knockoff part manufacturers, “models”, race cars, and car companies were some really great looking Hondas and Acuras.

HPD B Spec Fit in the Honda booth at SEMA Show 2014

The new Honda Fit was the big star of the Honda booth – named SEMA’s Hottest Sport Compact of the show. Honda provided six builders with Fits to build for the show. All turned out to make the Fit their own. Spoon Sports, Bisimoto Engineering (they also built the Norm Reeves Honda Fit), Kontrabrands, MAD Industries, Tjin Edition, and Kenny Vinces killed it on many levels.

 

Kenny Vinces' build was particularly interesting as it was the only build that wasn't built by a company. Honda saw his past builds, liked his proposal, and hooked him up with a car to modify. Besides being an enthusiast builder, Vinces faced challenges that the rest of the builders did not. The biggest was time. He received his new Fit weeks after the others and since he lives on the east coast, his car would have to leave him a week earlier to make it to SEMA. That's a huge chunk of time to lose on a project that needs to be done in just nine weeks!

 

The Acura booth featured just three cars, all TLXs. The white 2015 TLX featured the Acura Genuine Accessories package. The other two were much more interesting. The stunning blue TLX was prepared by Galpin Auto Sports with expertly performed modifications that tied in seamlessly with the natural body lines to make the car much more aggressive without being garish. The big daddy of the display was the RealTime Racing Acura TLX GT race car. Its massaged and stretched fenders housed massive wheels, tires and brakes twisted by big power from the twin turbo V6 at all four corners.

Clean NSX with aggressively size and styled wheels.

Sportcar Motion’s bright orange “race car formerly known as Dark Knight” RSX.

Insanely wide NSX in the Toyo Tires area. It looked better than the high priced Ford it was parked next to!

Don’t tell anybody, but I touched the hiney. I mean LOOK AT IT!!

2015 Fits on display in the Honda booth.

Bisi made sure this Fit could get out of it’s own way and then some!

Kenny Vinces’ is known for his flares and his Fit wore them well.

Norm Reeves’ Fit by Bisimoto in the Honda Booth.

Vibrant Performance Formula Drift S2000 by Chris Jeanneret Racing.

About 1,000 horsepower from this boosted K24.

We talked with Chris about bring the Honda back to Formula Drift here

From street car to race car to car-b-que to SEMA Show car, Ken Suen’s (BooBooRacing) Big Red.

More NSX deliciousness.

2nd gen Integra drag car means business and looks good doing it.

Jay Calderon’s RCG Integra was killing it everywhere last year. Here it is in the Hondata booth at SEMA Show 2014.

More Hondas we found outside.

So smooth!

Inside the B Spec HPD 2015 Fit.

Did we mention the Honda booth was all about the 2015 Fit?

More shots of the Realtime Racing twin turbo, AWD World Challenge Acura TLX.

And that immaculate blue custom TLX.

Since this was so disturbing we put it at the end. What appear to be Celica headlights on a mean NSX.

Out back things got worse, much worse… Yep, Camaro tails. #tear

OK, we couldn’t end it like that. Here’s another awesome shot of Big Red.