MEAN GREEN TOURING MACHINE
4x4 Magazine Australia|May 2022
BAW AUTOMOTIVE'S CHOPPED 200 SERIES IS A BUILD WORTHY OF BEING DISPLAYED AT SEMA, THE LEVELS OF ATTENTION TO DÉTAIL ARE SIMPLY MIND-BLOWING
EVAN SPENCE
MEAN GREEN TOURING MACHINE

YOU’VE no doubt seen or read about vehicles built overseas in the US of A for SEMA, one of the wildest automotive shows in the world. Well, some of those vehicles might be incredible to look at from afar, but once you get up close they are severely lacking, and honestly just downright unsafe in some cases. When I first laid eyes on the BAW Automotive chopped 200 Series at the 2022 Brisbane 4WD Show, my first thought was 'this is how you build a show car'. This is an Aussie version of a SEMA build done right, but it is also so much more than that.

This isn’t something to be hidden away and covered in a tarp, only to be wheeled out for trade shows a few times a year to showcase the work that Queensland-based BAW Automotive undertake on a day-to-day basis. No, this is the family vehicle of BAW Automotive's owners – their daily driver, their tourer and the vehicle used to pick their three kids up from school in. That’s a tough gig for any vehicle, let alone something so unique and heavily customised.

All you have to do is take a look at the interior to see just how much effort has gone in to this rig, it’s over the top but in all the right ways. Let’s not forget the paint job on the 200 Series, splashed in the now uniquely BAW Automotive Nori Green, somewhat a signature move for the company having other vehicles in their fleet painted the same colour.

Why the 200 Series instead of a 300 Series, or just stick with the BAW Automotive 79 Series we featured back in issue 460 of 4X4 Australia?

MEAN GREEN

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