Click image for a high-res gallery of Michelin booth pics by Drew Phillips
At last year's SEMA show, one of our favorite booths by far was the one from Michelin, which brought together the world's fastest supercars for one massive display of speed. We eagerly anticipated what they had in store for us this year, and we headed straight for it. It would have been virtually impossible for Michelin to top itself, but they sure made a stab at it. While last year focused on production cars, the display this year was broadened to feature tuner cars as well as race cars. Taking the unique approach of having a production model, tuner version and race car from three prominent manufacturers, Michelin showed us that they build a tire for all sectors of the automotive kingdom. While we were particularly fond of the Audi R8 by APR, there was also a Champion Motorsport F77 Turbo and out back a Lingenfelter Corvette sporting 1,100 HP. Race cars included the R10 from Audi, an RS Spyder from Porsche, and a Corvette C6.R as well. While a production R8 and GT3 RS represented the stock crowd for the German marques, the Corvette slot was left suspiciously vacant, perhaps giving us a preview of what shoes the ZR1 might be donning for its debut. Nice follow-up, Michelin.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SuperSkyline89 @ Nov 1st 2007 12:11PM
Now that is cool. If only all the other people at SEMA had cars that cool. Even those stock cars are way cooler than half the stuff there, and the race cars, those are just freakin awesome.
JD @ Nov 1st 2007 12:47PM
Impressive cars, but it just can't touch last years display in my book. Anywhere they have not only a McLaren F1- BUT AN LM!!?!?? That wins in my book. Don't forget the zonda last year. Those were the two that I can remember off the top of my head. There were more nice cars though, possibly an 'egg CCX? I don't remember.
JD @ Nov 1st 2007 12:49PM
Found it! Here's the link, hit it and you'll see why I think last years was better.
http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/03/sema-gallery-greatest-supercar-display-ever-from-michelin/
Also includes another Gordon Murray car.
Zane @ Nov 1st 2007 1:52PM
Amazing! Thanks for the link, JD!
SuperSkyline89 @ Nov 1st 2007 2:36PM
Th . . th . .. thats . . . amazing.
Dan @ Nov 2nd 2007 12:05AM
Where are all the race winning MotoGP bikes? OH WAIT
Chris @ Nov 3rd 2007 6:32PM
The display was very nice, but I'm surprised by comments complaining about other displays at the show... Since the show was only open to industry folks, of which I'm one, I would think the focus would be on the products a business would carry or consider carrying. If how cool the display is or how "hot" the models in a particular booth are sways a purchasing professional over other things like quality, service, profit potential, etc, I would question what they're really attending the show for... Sure it's cool, but it's supposed to be about business too.