Allegedly, this year’s show was bigger, more products, more buyers, more media, blah, blah, blab . . . I believe it. Between the venues at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Sands Expo Center, there are millions of square feet of exhibits. It seems to have grown larger than the exhibit areas quite a bit as they’ve run out of room inside the massive venues.
Wandering up and down the long, long aisles (my poor feet!) filled with mostly useless crap and some truly amazing new products. Race car parts, things to make cars run faster/better, paints, polishes, applicators, removers, you name it, somebody was showing it. The saving grace is the hundreds of beautiful ladies hired to make even a dull product interesting (Note to Editor: I forgot whether you told me to shoot hot ladies or bikes so I shot both.).
There was a complete section on collision repair techniques, tools, supplies, etc, and not one insurance company trying to hustle business. Yet, every state requires mandatory auto insurance. Amazingly, I didn’t see any ambulance-chasing attorneys, but, of course, I don’t look for them. Wonder why when the automobile business is so much larger than the motorcycle business they’re not pimping their insurance and legal services?
Hundreds of tricked out cars and trucks were on display with a motorcycle in between them here and there. I did sit in a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat with 707 ponies under the hood and drooled. Is there any dealer out there who will let me road test one of theses bullets?
If you’d like more information on SEMA, click on http://www.semashow.com/ and save your feet.