We couldn’t make Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) this year but we’re getting plenty of material from the participating automakers. Here’s one of Honda’s entries, the 2007 Civic mod up (and how!) by MUGEN.

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Dear Santa,

I’ve been good this year, so I’m going to ask for something special this Christmas. I want a new car. I know, it’s a lot to ask, but I have been really, really good this year!

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As most of you are aware, Toyota launched its Scion division about a year ago in California to try and, well, conveniently discard its reputation as an old-folks car. The xA and xB were launched together – the xA looked like a Toyota Matrix that backed into a big rig, and the xB looked like it was conceived by a big rig designer. Both were essentially the same underneath the skin, meant to be inexpensive utility vehicles for generation Y (or whatever the hell we’re labeled as now). To date, I’ve seen four different xBs, and one xA – and I go to a high school campus, which is part of Scion’s target demographic, and I live in southern California, where Scion first set shop. Can you say “duds”?

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