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Ridiculous Scion iA Lowrider Is Headed to SEMA, We’d Send It to the Scrapyard

When you go to the SEMA show, you expect to see a lot of weirdness, atrocities, and generally speaking, stuff that will make you cringe and wonder why would somebody go through the trouble and destroy a perfectly good car to come up with what’s in front of your eyes.
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Photo: KMA Industries/Eddie Huang
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Let’s be honest, this unexplainable masochistic tendency is actually the main reason anyone attends SEMA. It’s like the freak shows of old transposed into the automotive world. We thrive on the ugly, the deformed, and the abominable.

One of the best such examples that’ll be waiting in the halls of SEMA is this Scion iA lowrider modified by KMA Industries at the request of Eddie Huang. This latter name might sound familiar, as Eddie is a pretty active person: he’s described as a restaurateur, chef, writer, lawyer, and the owner of a sandwich shop in the East Village of Manhattan.

But the real reason you might know him is his involvement with “Fresh Off the Boat,” a TV comedy series based on his experience in America as the son of two Taiwanese immigrants that’s had a lot of success.

But enough about Eddie, and let’s focus more on the car itself. The orangey thing you see here used to be a Scion iA or, as others might know it, a Mazda2 Sedan. It has suffered multiple exterior and interior modifications that led to this very hard to describe look.

Aside from the paint job, the most striking element on the outside has got to be the golden spoked wheels. They’re actually quite nice, but they seem out of place here - in all honesty, anything would - and only add to the mishmash that is the Scion’s outside appearance. As do the golden engravings on the pillars and the absence of side-mirrors.

The inside, though, that’s where things become even weirder. First there’s the chain steering wheel that certainly wasn’t built with ergonomics as its highest priority - not to mention the stock column stalks that are now looking very out of place. The Bamboo gear lever is cool, but it gets lost among all the other features.

Features like the black wrinkled micro suede that can be found all over, the rear armrest made out of five speakers and the further golden engravings. And as if all this weren’t enough to draw attention, in true lowrider style, this Scion iA is also equipped with a set of airbag systems that should make it hop a little.

We do realize this is a show car, and show cars don’t care for things like reason or ergonomics, but their style should still pay attention to the slightest sense of taste, and this car fails at that. Badly.
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