Here’s a first look at the RHD Corvette E-Ray while testing outside of GMs Milford Proving Grounds.
Back in 2021, GM confirmed that they would offer the Z06 in right hand drive following the reveal of the C8 Corvette. The Z06 is expected to be offered in the UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and other RHD markets. That being said, GM has been pretty quiet when it comes to the E-Ray, but our shots confirm that it will be available in the aforementioned markets.
The Corvette E-Ray is expected to mate the 6.2L V8 from the Stingray with a hybrid configuration, adding a new model to the Corvette family. Expect an official debut in early 2023 with an on-sale date in Q2 as a 2024 model.
A strong SEMA Board means wise leadership and an association that serves its members well. As a member of the Association, we are currently seeking your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors.
The following seats are open for this year’s election:
Chairman-elect (one open seat)
Distributor/Retailer (one open seat)
Please take a moment and tell us whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for a board member position by completing and submitting a nomination form. To help the vetting process, please include brief information about the nominee’s qualifications, such as background, experience and achievements that would make that nominee an outstanding board candidate.
Nominations for the SEMA Board of Directors are due on Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
We urge you to take part in the nominations process—our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the Board, but we need you to help bring them to the attention of the Nominating Committee.
Thank you for your attention to this important request.
SHREVEPORT LA (12.27.22) With the Christmas and New Years Holidays falling on celebration weekends the 12volt Spin To Win Wheel 209 was postponed until January 6th to begin in year 2023. Spin-To-Win Wheel 209 will get the year 2023 off to a fast start.
The 12volt Spin-to-Win Wheel was created to bring an element of fun to the 12volt industry. The weekly 12volt Spin-To-Win Wheel is now spinning in Year 5.
A check headed to The 12volt Spin-To-Win winner on September 12th.
Spinning out a winner each Friday, a lucky 12volt retailer can win a cool prize and top brands receive visibility across the marketplace.
12volt brands with a space on the 12volt Spin-To-Win Wheel include Kicker, NavAtlas, SiriusXM, PowerBass, CRUX, DS18, JBL, RDV Automotive, Kenwood, JVC, Nakamichi and Maximum Power. 12volt News $100. cash awards have spaces on the 12volt Spin-To-Wheel for a winning 12volt retailer.
These JVC prizes are available as the 12volt Spin-To-Win Wheel rolls into 2023.
WTF… Where’s the Fun. On the next spin of the 12volt Spin-To-Win Wheel… on Friday January 6th. With the Christmas and New Years Holidays falling on weekends we will delay the next 12volt Spin-To-Win Wheel until Friday January 6th and get Year 5 off to a very fast start with Spin 209.
Mike and Jim Ring of Spring Green, Wisconsin, garnered top honors at the ninth annual SEMA Battle of the Builders Presented by Mothers Polishes competition at the 2022 SEMA Show, held November 1–4 in Las Vegas. The announcement was made at the start of SEMA Ignited, the official SEMA Show after-party designed to celebrate the builders and showcase products from the trade-only Show.
The Ringbrothers celebrated their win at 2022 Battle of the Builders Presented by Mothers Polishes.
The four class winners of this year’s competition will be highlighted along with other featured builders in a new TV special, “SEMA: Battle of the Builders, Presented by Mothers High Performance Car Care” scheduled to debut on A+E Networks’ FYI and History’s Drive block Saturday, January 28, at 9:00 a.m. (EST). Check your local station listings for additional broadcast details.
For 2022, the Battle of the Builders competition was fine-tuned to reflect changes in the customization space and to encourage greater diversity in the field of entrants. The Hot Rod category was modified to include street trucks for the first time, and the Truck/Off-Road category was altered to Four-Wheel Drive/Off-Road. The Sport-Compact category was expanded to include Import Performance, Luxury and Exotic vehicles, and the age limit for the The Young Guns competition was bumped up from 27 to 29 years old.
A panel of industry experts assessed all the entrants and narrowed down the field of more than 200 entries to a Top 40 (10 in each category) before selecting the top 12 builds overall.
The top 12 finalists are listed in the sidebar to the right.
BOTB finalists’ vehicles were on display throughout SEMA Show week inside North Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Top 12 Finalists:
Hot Rod/Hot Rod Truck
Mike Ring/Ringbrothers–’48 Chevrolet Loadmaster pickup
Tim Devlin–’34 Chevrolet roadster
Tyler Nelson–’58 Ford F100
Sport Compact, Import Performance, Luxury and Exotic
NEW YORK – December 26, 2022 – SiriusXM announced today that it is providing fans with access to 45 games this college football postseason. SiriusXM will carry live play-by-play of every Division I FBS bowl game – including the College Football Playoff Semifinals and National Championship – as well as the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) National Championship game and other postseason All-Star games. Subscribers can tune in to these games on the SiriusXM radios in their cars and on the SXM App.
The schedule begins this Friday, December 16. A schedule of games and their SiriusXM channel assignments can be found at SiriusXM.com/BowlGames.
On New Year’s Eve, subscribers can tune in for broadcasts of both College Football Playoff Semifinal games – the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl featuring #2 Michigan vs. #3 TCU (4 pm ET), followed by #1 Georgia vs. #4 Ohio State in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (8 pm ET). Then on January 9, listeners will get live play-by-play as the winners of those two games face off in the College Football Playoff National Championship at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California (7:30 pm ET). For all three games the ESPN Radio broadcast will air on SiriusXM channel 80 (ESPN Radio), and team broadcasts can be found on SiriusXM channels 81 (ESPN Xtra), 82 (Mad Dog Sports Radio) or 84 (ESPNU Radio).
In addition to the College Football Playoff games, SiriusXM’s postseason schedule also features seven other matchups between AP Top 25-ranked teams:
SiriusXM will carry Westwood One’s broadcast of the FCS Football Championship on January 8 (1:30 pm ET). The FCS Football Championship game will feature the winners of this weekend’s semifinal games – North Dakota St. vs. Incarnate Word and South Dakota St. vs. Montana St.
SiriusXM will also air other postseason All-Star football games of interest, including the HBCU Pigskin Showdown, showcasing the best senior football stars from historically black colleges and universities (Dec. 17 at 1 pm ET) and the All-American Bowl, which will be played by the best high school players from around the country (Jan. 7 at 1 pm ET).
SiriusXM will carry the official radio broadcasts for many of the schools playing in Division I FBS bowl games through its agreement with LEARFIELD or individual universities. Twenty of the bowl game broadcasts – including the College Football Playoff Semifinals and College Football Playoff National Championship – are produced and provided by ESPN Radio or an affiliate. Other broadcast providers are NBC Sports Audio Network, Bowl Season Radio, Touchdown Radio and Westwood One.
College football bowl games and SiriusXM’s college sports programming are available to subscribers nationwide in their cars, as well as on their phones and connected devices at home with the SXM App.
HENDERSON, NV (12.13.22) – Retro Manufacturing has released a new set of Speaker Mounts for select classic vehicles to make replacing factory Dash Speakers hassle-free. They are constructed of a thick metal alloy and are installed from underneath the dash for a factory-like fit. There are four new Speaker Mounts available, each for different applications. The RS-SB01 is specifically for the 1968 Chevy II Nova, 1968-1969 El Camino, or the 1969 Chevelle and mounts a RetroSound® 4″ x 10″ Dash Speaker. The RS-SB02 is for classic GM, Chevrolet, and Pontiac vehicles from the ’60s and ’70s, also designed for mounting a RetroSound 4″ x 10″ Dash Speaker.
The RS-SB03, like the RS-SB01 and RS-SB02, mounts an 4″ x 10″ Dash Speaker but is not vehicle specific, fitting a wider variety of classics. The RS-SB04 is for classic cars and trucks with a 5″ x 7″ Dash Speaker. The RS-SB03 Speaker Mount will be on display this year as a featured product in the New Product Showcase at the SEMA 2022 show.
Retro Manufacturing has released a new set of Speaker Mounts for select classic vehicles to make replacing factory Dash Speakers hassle-free. They are constructed of a thick metal alloy and are installed from underneath the dash for a factory-like fit. There are four new Speaker Mounts available, each for different applications. The RS-SB01 is specifically for the 1968 Chevy II Nova, 1968-1969 El Camino, or the 1969 Chevelle and mounts a RetroSound® 4″ x 10″ Dash Speaker. The RS-SB02 is for classic GM, Chevrolet, and Pontiac vehicles from the ’60s and ’70s, also designed for mounting a RetroSound 4″ x 10″ Dash Speaker.
The RS-SB03, like the RS-SB01 and RS-SB02, mounts an 4″ x 10″ Dash Speaker but is not vehicle specific, fitting a wider variety of classics. The RS-SB04 is for classic cars and trucks with a 5″ x 7″ Dash Speaker. The RS-SB03 Speaker Mount will be on display this year as a featured product in the New Product Showcase at the SEMA 2022 show.
MESA, AZ, November 28, 2022 — MSC America, distributor of high end car audio brands Brax, Helix, Match and BLAM announced today that Vernon’s Signature Audio from Lubbock, Tx attended a special training designed to increase their knowledge of the company’s DSP based products and how to use their proprietary tools.
Utilizing innovative training tools such as a Personal Tuning Station, consisting of a Helix DSP Mini connected to a pair of headphones, allowed each attendee to make adjustments via a laptop computer and hear the effect in real time. In comparison to simply being told about the effect of time alignment or reading about which crossover type to use, this method allows the attendee to actually hear the audible difference that each tuning decision makes, such as adjusting EQ bars up and down to hear how it changes the sound of an instrument.
After having a much clearer understanding of the function of the DSP tools, each attendee was able to put that knowledge to use in a real world situation, by tuning an actual vehicle, which technician Lazaro Cantu said was his favorite part of the training. Taking turns, each attendee walked through the step by step “Tuning for Profit” process developed by MSC to produce the best possible results, reliably and efficiently until they each felt comfortable enough to reproduce those same results in their customers’ cars.
Members of the Vernon’s Signature Audio crew from Lubbock TX are flanked by MSC team members in the Mesa AZ US headquarters.
“The goal of providing this level of personalized training,” said MSC Vice President Jason Digos “is to equip the dealers with not only the knowledge, but also the experience they need to start implementing the process as soon as they get home. Without hands-on experience, attendees often forget what they’ve learned before they get a chance to use it!”
After having spent years utilizing only some of the features available in Audiotec Fischer Digital Signal Processors, the team at Vernon’s Signature Audio said that on a scale of 1-10, their confidence in their tuning ability went from a 1 to an 8 because of the 1.5 days spent with MSC.
“I didn’t want to damage anything” Mike Martinez, a senior technician said of the reason why they would use only the basic features of the DSP before, “but now that I know we can simply undo any changes we make using the Time Machine tool, I am much more willing to experiment with all of the features of the DSP!”
When asked what was the first thing they were going to do with their newly acquired knowledge when they got back to work, their answers ranged from tuning their personal vehicle to taking on more responsibility in their installs and calling in previous customers for a fresh tune. But one thing that Co-owner Leon Winchester and the team from Vernon’s Signature Audio agreed on, was that this was the best training they’d ever been to, pointing them in the direction in which “the industry is heading.”
If you would like to visit the MSC America office for training, please call Jason or Matt at 480.372.2929 or email sales@msc-america.com.
November 28, 2022, Lehighton, PA – 1sixty8 media, the publisher of BestCarAudio.com, is pleased to announce the launch of the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway. In conjunction with Sony Car Audio, BestCarAudio.com will be giving away over $12,500 in Sony Mobile ES equipment in the days leading up to Christmas.
“Our generous sponsors have been donating products for our giveaways on BestCarAudio.com for some time, but the 12 Days of Christmas promotion will be something really special,” said Mitch Schaffer, founder of 1sixty8 media. “Sony’s forward-thinking approach to business and their generosity are a breath of fresh air. We are excited to be part of this promotion and to be a small part of building brand awareness for the exciting new Sony Mobile ES line.”
This is not the first time Sony has sponsored a promotional giveaway with BestCarAudio.com. “This summer, we gave away an XAV-9500ES and had over 10,000 entries,” Schaffer said. “We expect this promotion to blow the lid off of that one!”
Anthony Tozzi, Distribution Account Manager for Sony Car Audio in North America, said, “We have been sponsoring BestCarAudio.com for several years and find it a great place to put our brand in front of interested consumers. As we add more products to our Sony Mobile ES line, we wanted an opportunity to make a big splash. I reached out to Mitch and we created the 12 Days of Christmas giveaway.”
Las Vegas, NV – (November 23, 2022) – Audiomobile is pleased to announce the initial deliveries of their latest ‘Advanced Technology’ car audio subwoofers – the Encore 44 Series. Over 3-years in development, new Encore series represents an “Industry First” product, as the first 1,000 watt, low-profile series of car audio subwoofers.
Featuring a totally new platform, the Encore builds upon the technologies of the original Elite series, but features an array of unique, innovative technical improvements, developed over the past several years, borrowing from proven technologies, originally developed for use in high-power ‘Prosound’ subwoofers.
The Encore series represents Audiomobile’s first 1,000 watt subwoofer design, and features an array of advanced, unique performance technologies, including huge, OFC dual voice coil, on a TIL high-power former. To handle this extreme thermal load the Encore is features both upper and lower alloy “Shorting Rings” (‘FSD’), as well as the unique radial “ICAR” Intercooling plate, to provide unparalleled conduction cooling and remarkably low-inductance, regardless of the voice coil position.
Featuring an unprecedented performance-envelope, in a ‘low-profile’ driver, the new Encore series delivers a remarkable 19 mm linear Xmax, Klippel verified and will handle over 1,000 watts RMS. This is only made possible by the combined horizontal and vertical “SuperCool” (Stasis Uni-Polar Endo-Radial) technology. This truly unique, vertical cooling design, represents a quantum-leap in convection-cooling of subwoofer motors, as it allows direct, high-velocity air-flow over the coil windings, unlike traditional axial-pole vent designs, which do not actually provide effective voice coil cooling.
The 4K series also features include the proprietary, patent-pending “ICAR” Intercooler as well as the unique, Aluminum “FSD” (Flux Stabilization Device), which together serve to significantly lower inductance, reduces Intermodulation distortion and virtually eliminates power-compression. This all translates to greater output and higher power-handling.
Unique ‘T-shaped’ extended magnetic-gap, with extended Aluminum ‘Shorting Ring’ crown.
Patent-pending ‘ICAR’ Aluminum Intercooler, reduces power-compression and distortion
Proprietary “SuperCool” motor venting delivers high-velocity, direct voice coil forced-air cooling
This unprecedented combination of features allows for up to 4,000 watt (‘4 Kw’) musicpower peaks, but was designed to perform optimally in both sealed and vented enclosures, from .80 cf to 1.25 cf (for the 4412 and 4415 respectively).
Additional features include high-performance suspension features a heavy-duty, premium EROM surround, and large flat-spider, with ‘in-line’ lead wires, to allow up to 2-inches of peak to peak excursion provided by the unique motor. This performance is packaged in a very compact 4.9” and 5.9” mounting-depth, making the Encore series the longest excursion, “low-profile” subwoofer on the market. The Encore series starts at $650 MSRP. Please visit Facebook.com/Audiomobile.net for more information.
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