These Are The Worst Car Builds You've Ever Seen At SEMA

2010: A Bugatti is ruined. A Bugatti! They did this to a Bugatti! (I was there, this is my photo. My camera balked when I pressed the shutter button...):

Thankfully, it’s just a wrap.

Suggested by: NotLewisHamilton

The Count’s Kustoms 1973 Riviera

I love the grille, but the paint job is waaaay over the top.

Know when to say ‘when’, Danny.

If you suddenly stop commenting, we’re going to assume someone in the lowrider community pushed you out a window. You are entitled to your own opinion, though.

Suggested by: Earthbound Misfit I

So the B is for Build single seater I wanted to like, and had some serious stuff going for it, but then they decided to speed run the finish of it in order to make it to Sema, so the body work felt like they punted and decided to just slap some 1/4" sheet steel on it (which is what it was made out of) and it went from “neat build that has a lot of potential” to “oh no why would you do that it has to weigh multiple tons now”

Sometimes, time just isn’t on your side. Still, what a cool idea.

Suggested by: Axel-Ripper

Sema has just become this technicolor mush of lifted trucks, side-by-sides, and same-y Pro Touring builds that will never see the road, so the truly egregious stuff rarely sticks out. The only truly horrendous one I can recall is the Tjin Edition Fit

It looks like an idea that maybe looked okay-ish in a sketch but nobody building the car communicated with each other or bothered to take measurements for anything. And it ruined a perfectly wonderful car in the process.

Man, what I wouldn’t give for Honda to bring back the Fit. Now that was a fantastic car.

Suggested by: The NSX Was Only In Development For 4 Years

I’d have to dig through photos to find pictures from last time I went to SEMA a few years ago, but the ones I really hated were the stanced super cars.

I saw a couple Ferrari’s and a Lamborghini sitting basically on the ground with the ridiculous stanced wheels. I don’t like stanced vehicles in general, but if you want to do it to a relatively inexpensive car like a Nissan Z or Miata or whatever, knock yourself out. But doing it to a true performance exotic is just gross.

Also although I do agree with your dislike for Vegas, I do think SEMA is worth going every few years just to see the spectacle.

For some reason, I couldn’t find a video of a stanced Ferrari or Lamborghini at SEMA, so enjoy this 2JZ-swapped Lamborghini Gallardo in its place.

Suggested by: RideOrange

Any of the monstrosities unveiled by Mansory.

(I figure they’re named after always saying “Man, sorry” when owners see what’s been done to their cars.)

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but if your opinion is that Mansory is good, your opinion is wrong.

Suggested by: TRath

Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I thought Throtl’s Eclipse build from a few years ago was a waste of time and talent

At least they didn’t give it a 12-inch lift and add mud tires.

Suggested by: Big Boy Caprice

I mean look, even our man Tavarish had to half-ass it this year and bring a 20% done project.

And umm...like everything else there, its got a really well applied vinyl wrap on it. Which looks like trash (the wrap, not the application job.)

In a way, it’s kind of cool to see a half-built P1.

Suggested by: Snowblind Rhino

The first things that come to mind are any lifted trucks with a Bluetooth driveshaft and anything that’s a Scary Steering Page candidate. Also almost anything in the SEMA Fails Facebook group. It looks like there’s a ton ugly slapdash “builds” every year and they are getting worse

Nothing says “super-hardcore off-roader” like a truck you have to push over to your display booth.

Suggested by: Slow Joe Crow

SEMA 2019 AMC Gremlin dragster?

It’s certainly not my style, but I don’t know. I kind of like it.

Suggested by: the1969DodgeChargerFan

SEMA 2019 Bumblebeed GT-R

Do the front wheels actually even turn? I’m not even being snarky. I legitimately want to know.

Suggested by: the1969DodgeChargerFan

SEMA 2013 Bastardized Chrysler 300 (with a V6)

When the Chrysler 300 finally goes out of production, it’s going to hit the fake Bentley and Rolls-Royce community the hardest.

Suggested by: the1969DodgeChargerFan

SEMA 2018 Ford F-something

Give it a different wrap, and I think it would look a lot better. Then again, SEMA isn’t really about restraint.

Suggested by: the1969DodgeChargerFan

SEMA 2019 Out mad-max Mad Max

If you’re wondering how you get the snowmobiles off the truck when it’s that high off the ground, skip to about the five-minute mark in the video. Turns out, it’s simpler than you’d think.

Suggested by: the1969DodgeChargerFan