Ford plays dress-up with new Fusion for Vegas tuning show

While humans have Halloween to put on costumes, the auto industry uses the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas for add-on parts vendors as a rolling cosplay convention. Here's the first of this year's attempts to make restrained family cars seem like race gods, a quartet of heavily modified Ford Fusions. If history holds, they'll be good buys when they turn up in a few years in a overlooked lot at the Barrett-Jackson auctions. The top example comes from Ice Nine Group, which used the Australian V8 Supercar series as an inspiration, even though this Fusion gets its power from a 1.6-liter turbo four-cylinder and might strain to put the massive brakes to use.

The other examples run from the oddly restrained to the oddly tinted. The 3d Carbon AirDesign "EuroFusion" has a lower body and this year's fashion of near-stanced tire/wheel combos that would turn the car into a paint shaker on American roads.