Ford Focus goes SEMA mad

A total of seven Ford Focus at the 2011 SEMA Show

There’s nothing American petrolheads (perhaps we should say gearheads) like more than tarting up a car. Which explains why the relatively sensible Ford Focus is being pimped to within an inch of its life for this year’s SEMA show.

The SEMA Motor Show is a trade-only gathering – despite which it gets around 50k visitors – which the organisers call the “premier automotive specialty products trade event – in the world.” It attracts trade visitors from across the globe to see parts, tools and components and the ‘SEMA’ special cars brought along by car makers and car modifiers.

Last year we highlighted the efforts of Lexus at SEMA, where their very conservative cars received styling mods that were extreme, to say the least. This year it’s the turn of Ford to authorise the pimping of the Focus, with a total of seven specially modified Ford Focus on show.

Unlike Lexus – which only permitted cosmetic modifications of their cars – Ford are happy for the car modders to play with the oily bits, so we’re promised everything from a mild workover of performance to stuff at the real extreme.

The cars on show (which are all in the picture gallery below) have been prepared for SEMA by a variety of companies:

As well as the barking mad Ford Focus makeovers, Ford is promising they will be taking the same route with the Fiesta, and that they will also be revealing new authorised restoration stuff for the classic Mustang.

But its the mad modified cars that will get all the glory

(7 photos – click any thumbnail for full gallery)

By Cars UK