Scion's devil car heads to SEMA
This is the car of the devil.
The headlights flash and turn orange, the gas cap cover flaps as the front seats shake. White smoke pours out of air vents and the window glass goes from clear to opaque. The rear wheels toe in.
Some might say it sounds like the last new-car lemon they bought. But to Scion, it's the latest in cool.
At the SEMA aftermarket parts show opening in Las Vegas Tuesday, Scion is showing this customized version of its new iA sedan. The orange car borrows its theme from a comic book, Outcast from Skybound Entertainment, about demonic possession.
Great idea, but hard to bring to fruition.
"The execution was the challenging part," says Troy Sumitomo, owner of the build shop, Five Axis, in Huntington Beach, Calif. "We were really given a lot of creative freedom."
The result is amazing. The animation is controlled from a panel in the trunk that operates each of the functions.
Sumitomo knew he had it right when he saw his childrens' reaction.