This year's
SEMA and AAPEX shows may be over, but the Centric Parts team is still
celebrating our 2012 participation. Not only did these shows give us a chance
to meet with customers - old and new - and to show off our latest products and
catalogs, but the shows were also very memorable for other reasons too.

Over at the
Las Vegas Convention Center, StopTech and Power Slot were well represented,
mounted on a dozen or more high profile show cars this year. One of them even
won a top award at SEMA. A StopTech supported project earned the Gran
Turismo Award for Best Truck or SUV.

In addition,
the StopTech/Power Slot booth featured one of only three brand new 2013 SRT
Vipers at the show. The one in our booth (top) was a black GTS model with the optional
Track Package, featuring StopTech AeroRotors as an upgrade to the standard discs fitted to lesser models. The car received a ton of attention from
attendees and the media, as it should. This newly updated version of the iconic
American super car features an 8.4-liter V10 producing 640 hp and 600 ft-lbs of
torque. With a price starting at just under $100,000, it is actually quite a
bargain too, competing head to head with Porsches and Ferraris costing up to
three times as much.
Another
award that came in just before our trip to Las Vegas was the Toyota Quality
Alliance Gold Supplier Award - a huge honor. The Gold Supplier Award is
presented to top Toyota parts and accessories suppliers who have consistently
demonstrated their commitment to product development, product quality,
operational quality and product support. As a long-standing technical partner
with Toyota, Centric products have shown up on several Toyota, Lexus and Scion
models, including the newest Scion FR-S sports car that features a StopTech
Trophy Race Big Brake Kit on its World Challenge GTS race car.
