Adam Rayner flew to SEMA in Las Vegas with Pioneer and copped an eyeful of this lovely demo car…
I have been jammy enough to have been to Las Vegas a few times now. I have had both the sheer luxury of a professional snapper and had to make the best fist of it I could manage with a camera myself the rest of the time. Either way you have to pick which cars you are going to feature yet you are never there long enough to go see everything before you choose which cars you’ll have. Thus the biggest fear as a journalist is ‘Have I got the right rides?’ You want to bring back stuff that you would want to read. You don’t want to learn that there were far more extreme things there and that you missed them. What happens is that you have to go by gut feelings as you cop eyes on the cars as you go around the show.
In this case the show was SEMA and I was there under the wing of Pioneer who were running a dealer trip and let me tag along, the lovely chaps and chapesses that they are.
I had got press accreditation and a badge that said so instead of the exhibitor badge the dealer lads all had (Pioneer had to hire a tiny space to get fifty exhibitor badges rather than buy tickets it was a better modus operandum.) It helps when you are asking gorgeous promo lasses for their photograph it tends to mean you are not just collecting their pictures for use in a private moment later.
So I stroll into the first hall, way away from the Mobile Electronics section as such still and found the Subaru of America stand. There, gleaming like a red cherry was this gorgeous Scooby. It was so Euro-desirable and so well done I decided right there and then to feature it. Yes, Kicker have a plainly insane new demo truck called Road Warrior and styled after the Mad Max flicks but this car was the sort of thing you might just be able to make happen here in Blighty.

Mind you, I was still miffed to find the full spec of the Road Warrior. It has two of their new amplifiers in it called War Horse MX10000.1. (pix in the main SEMA show feature) They are 10,000 watt hard-RMS monoblocks and run four Kicker L7 eighteens in their truck. It apparently good for de-boning whole cows at once.
The 2008 Subaru Impreza four door they started with is now heavily body kitted and yet surprisingly has only had really cosmetic engine tweaks. They only really understand huge blowers and engines over five litres over there I feel and wouldn’t really know how to mess with an STi like our boys do. (But that could just be me being uncharacteristically patriotic.)
The car was a four door but two were just for you to be able to see the install the better as the back seats are history. There are sets of their five inch dismantlable component speakers in the front and the boot of the car and no fewer than six of their CVX10 ten inch subwoofers.
XBox has definitely made the trend as the in-car games console of choice. I saw not one PS3 nor Wii I’m afraid. The boot mounted one in here was probably best operated from standing at the boot as the screen inside on the double DIN headunit would always be to one side or another if you were sat inside.
It was a gorgeous thing to behold and a worthy demo for both Kicker and Subaru. Hope you like it.
THE SYSTEM
Kicker RS 56.2 Coaxially mountable components Four sets
Kicker ZX650.4 amplifiers Two
Kicker ZX1500.1 amplifiers Two
Kicker CVX10 10 inch 4 Ohm subwoofers Six
Stinger SP1000 battery One
Stinger SP800 batteries Three
Clarion VMA 7196 7 inch monitors Two
Xbox 360 Elite One
Dynamat throughout
Stinger wiring throughout
Sparco seats and interior accessories
Varad lighting

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