Events

Here at GMTS we’re kicking off our coverage of the 2009 SEMA Show two days before the doors open to the public! We’re inside the Las Vegas Convention Center right now taking pictures just for you guys (and girls) to enjoy. There is a lot of cool stuff in here this year and I’m sure everyone will be happy to hear that the Camaro is the “it” car of this year. GM is coming back with a vengeance and SEMA is just a kick-off party! Enjoy the pictures and we’ll have more pictures and video as we take them.

The last couple years we've done something fun for GMTS fans at Hot Import Nights events by taking their picture with a hot car next to an equally hot model. Each person that stopped by the GMTS booth received a special card that allowed them to retrieve their image when they got home by visiting the GMTunerSource.com homepage. However, when we made the switch to GMTS V.3 we figured everyone had already downloaded their image so we didn't transfer it to the new site.

From the second the doors opened on Friday, the show was packed with people at all corners of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Racers and custom car builders were drawn to the GM Performance Parts booth in part because of GMPP'€™s announcement of the "body-in-white"€ Camaro, which made great buzz at the show! Placed throughout the show were some modified Cobalts and Corvettes that were also popular attractions.

PRI stands for Performance Racing Industry and if you want to make your car go faster, turn better or just perform better overall, this is the place to be. Over 1,300 of the top automotive performance companies make their way to Orlando, Florida every year to show off the latest and greatest of what they've been working on. Your GMTunerSource crew is here to cover it for you and bring coverage of this year's PRI Show straight to your screen.

The GM Tuner Tour heard that Formula D and Red Bull were hosting a little drifting competition, called the Red Bull Drifting World Championship, in Long Beach, CA so we decided to stop by and get in on the action. Thirty-two of the world'€™s best drifters were there showing off their skills, but while they were doing their thing, the GM Tuner Tour was showing off some of the hottest GM cars around and giving away tons of free stuff.

Well the 2008 SEMA Show has come and gone and we had a blast. We saw some very cool cars all week, including hooked up Vue'€™s and G8'€™s and a ton of brand new performance parts from GMPP. The 2008 SEMA Show encompassed over 2 million square feet and featured 1568 exhibitors all while more than 100,000 people roamed the various halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

We could barely walk at the end of the week, as we tried to check out all of the cars at the show. On the last day though it was all worth it, as we found a C6-R Compuware Corvette hiding next to the North Hall and of course we stopped dead in our tracks and took some pictures of it. Due to popular demand, we also headed back over to where we found a Corvette ZR1 earlier in the week and took some more shots of the new supercharged €˜vette.

Another day has come and gone at the 2008 SEMA Show and we can't figure out where the day went! We got to check out a lot of cool new cars and even stumbled upon a brand new Corvette ZR1! The polycarbonate hood section is awesome in person and the brakes are so massive it'€™s hard to believe that they fit inside the wheels.

GM Performance Parts also unveiled its new line of LSX crate engines including the LSX 454 and 357. These engines are set to dominate your local drag strip or road track in whatever project car you're building; providing classic LS series architecture with the latest in technological advancement.