Off-roading gets more affordable with TrophyLites

Somewhere in Mexicali in a car shop, sparks are flying just feet from the frame of a vehicle that could redefine off-road racing.
In the million-dollar world of competitive off-roading, where the team with the
biggest bank account often ends at the top, Heber resident Matt Scaroni is trying to change that. Scaroni is working on creating the first TrophyLite off-road truck a smaller version of the Trophy truck and making it available for distribution for around $30,000. “The whole concept was that I wanted to create something spec,” the 24-year-old Scaroni said. “I’ve always been interested in racing and I saw something here that could work.”
With his father Steve’s racing team, SMD Motorsports, already involved in the
off-road world, Matt wanted to create something that could be his own.
He went back and forth with a few ideas, but with the advice of his father, settled on the TrophyLite truck. “My dad told me to build a spec truck, but I wanted to do something smaller,” Matt said. “But it ended up being that I’m doing the exact vehicle that my dad told me to do.”