The SEMA Show returns to Las Vegas November 3–6, 2026, and Gauge Magazine will be inside the Las Vegas Convention Center for the week. This page is the home for our SEMA 2026 coverage, with daily photos, updates from the show and new galleries added as the week unfolds.
If you’ve never been to SEMA, it’s hard to understand the size of the show from a handful of highlight photos. A finished vehicle in one hall can lead you to the manufacturer, fabricator, suspension company, wheel brand or new product behind the build somewhere else in the convention center. That’s one reason we’ve always tried to spend the week walking the show and photographing as much of it as possible.
For 2026, we’ll be looking for the custom cars, trucks, minitrucks, hot rods, lowriders, imports, off-road vehicles and specialty builds that catch our attention. We’ll also be checking out the manufacturers, new products and people behind the vehicles we find along the way.
The 2026 SEMA Show runs Tuesday, November 3 through Friday, November 6 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday.
The size of SEMA is exactly why we like covering it one day at a time. Trying to boil the entire show down to a short list of headline vehicles leaves too much out. Some of the builds we remember most aren’t necessarily the ones surrounded by the biggest crowds, and sometimes it’s a small fabrication detail or something tucked inside a booth that gets our attention.
We’ll work our way through the show each day, and as the photos are processed, the new galleries will be added below.
SEMA isn’t a new stop on the Gauge Magazine calendar. Gauge Media Group Inc., publisher of GaugeMagazine.com, has been a SEMA press and media member for more than 20 years. We’ve spent those years walking the Las Vegas show, photographing vehicles and following the builders, manufacturers and aftermarket companies that make SEMA what it is.
After more than two decades of doing this, we’ve learned not to walk through the doors looking for one particular kind of build. Some of the best things we’ve found over the years weren’t sitting in the biggest booth or drawing the biggest crowd. That’s part of what keeps SEMA interesting. You have to walk it, look closely and see what you find.
If you want to see how we covered the show last year, take a look through our SEMA Show 2025 daily photo coverage. You can also browse the Gauge Magazine issue archive for more of our previous SEMA and automotive event coverage.
Gauge Magazine is proud to be recognized as an Official SEMA Media Partner for the 2026 SEMA Show. It’s another chapter in a relationship with SEMA that goes back more than 20 years for Gauge Media Group and Gauge Magazine.
Information for working media, press credentials and show resources can be found through the official SEMA Show media resources.
We’ll be looking at the whole build—fabrication, suspension, stance, wheels and tires, paint, bodywork, interiors, audio, engine work and the small details that are easy to miss when you’re scrolling through photos.
Products are another big part of the week. We’ll be watching for new suspension components, wheels, electronics, fabrication products and other aftermarket parts that could eventually find their way onto the cars and trucks being built outside of SEMA.
Gauge has never been about covering just one corner of the automotive scene, and SEMA isn’t that kind of show anyway. A minitruck can be a few aisles away from a high-end hot rod, a lifted truck, a lowrider or an import build. That’s what makes walking the show worthwhile, and we’ll photograph what we think deserves a closer look.
This is the page to bookmark during SEMA week. We’ll add each day’s Gauge Magazine photo gallery below as it’s completed.
Day 1 photos and reporting will be added from Las Vegas.
Day 2 photos and reporting will be added from Las Vegas.
Day 3 photos and reporting will be added from Las Vegas.
Day 4 photos and reporting will be added from Las Vegas.
Keep this page handy November 3–6. We’ll keep adding photos and notes from Las Vegas as we work our way through SEMA 2026, giving you one place to follow what Gauge Magazine finds throughout the week.
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