Every year at SEMA there is usually one exciting new car that seems to be the favorite. Over the years we have seen that honor go to Camaros, Minis, Ford Focuses and we can even remember the year the New Beetle was the hot item. This year the cool car was the Mustang. Even though it came out a year ago, this was the first SEMA show when the Mustang was available in large numbers to tuners, who this year had enough time to really go to town on it. And to town they went.

SEMA officials actually go through the three halls and several outside tents that make up the show’s more than 2 million square feet of exhibit space and they count everything they see, handing out awards to the model that tops each of four categories. In the car category, it was the Mustang that won "Hottest Car," by a mile. While SEMA doesn’t say exactly how many of each model it counted, you had only to walk around yourself to see that the Mustang outgunned the Camaro and anything else by a huge percentage. We’d say there were three or four more Mustangs to any one other car, but that’s just an eyeball guesstimate.

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