And speaking of GM, boy did they have some hot cars. The had several small Ecotec powered vehicles that caused a good deal of drool. The Saturn Sky and the Pontiac Solstice were on hand, and anyone who won’t admit they want on is either dead or a liar. Talk about a wide demographic… folks 16 to 65 are going to want one. They showed off two Solstice vehicles (Solstie? Solticeses?), one bone stock and one as a turbocharged coupe. What a killer platform! That thing’ll be a track eating, tire-burning drift monster next year. You’ll see.

The Ford booth had something I had never seen at the SEMA show before: a dyno that had a supercharged Mustang on it. The cool part was that anyone could put their business card in a pot and see if they were the lucky ones to be called to do a drag strip simulation on the dyno. This happened every hour… and sounded sweet! What a great way to get attention. We also had a few trucks in their with our power products on them. One of them even won a beast of show from Ford.

Chrysler’s both was good, but nothing too much to write home about. They did have a tricked out version of their new Neon replacement, but that thing’ll take a while to get accepted. They did have some mean looking Vipers, which usually make things go up a notch.

Believe it or not we actually had a system on a Honda. Rub your eyes and read that again… a Honda and it was in their booth no less. It was on a tricked out version of their “I can do anything” truck-thing, the Ridgeline. Boy did that look and sound good! Hope it goes into production soon (hint).

Well… I’ve jabbered on enough. I will say this about what I was able to see: the show seemed more professional this year. For years the show pushed the T and A factor to the acceptable limits, but that wasn’t the case this year. Well, that is except for the tire and wheel section. Don’t get me wrong… I love beautiful women, but it kind of gets in the way of doing business when you feel too bashful or distracted to see the product.