By SEMA Editors

Latest Jobs Added to SEMA Career Center

Are you hunting for a new job? The SEMA Career Center has a comprehensive listing of automotive-related job openings around the country. Here are some of the latest jobs posted to the website.

Business Development Manager
Kelford Cams is hiring a business development manager with extensive experience and a broad network in the performance automotive aftermarket industry. Your primary mission will be to dramatically extend market penetration throughout North America in the domestic automotive segment by supporting existing distributors and developing new distribution relationships. After an extensive training, your role will be to help grow sales from the company’s existing distributor network through training and support and establish new resellers and distributors throughout North America by leveraging your vast network of industry contacts. Candidates must have 7-10 years’ sales and vendor/distributor/dealer management experience in the high-performance automotive aftermarket industry. 

Executive Assistant
Coker Tire Company is hiring an executive assistant to the president to ensure smooth functioning of activities and processes in multiple lines of business, both domestically and internationally. The person in this position must be a highly motivated self-starter, multi-tasker, detail-oriented professional, capable of efficiently managing their time, workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast paced/high volume executive office. Full-time availability with flexible hours is required as is absolute confidentiality regarding company, employee-specific and industry information.

Customer Development Manager
American Tire Distributors (ATD) is hiring a customer development manager responsible for new business growth within assigned accounts. This position will work with tools and applications created by ATD’s advanced analytics team. These tools cover a wide range of applications, including analyzing a dealer’s business to determine what products they should stock, recommending prices across thousands of products, identifying which dealers are best positioned to take advantage of promotional offers, generating new customer leads and more. Backed by big data and cutting-edge analytics, the customer development manager will be empowered to take their selling career to the next level at ATD.

By SEMA Editors

Following are dates and locations for several upcoming SEMA-sponsored shows, measuring sessions and activities.

• SBN Live Chat: Melanie White, December 2, 2020
• 2021 SEMA Nordic Business Development Conference, September 2–6, 2021, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2021 SEMA Show, November 2–5, 2021, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas

For association-related travel, contact Manya Petropaki (manya.p@travelstore.com) at Travel Store USA, 949-930-9268.

SEMA Editors

SEMA eNews highlights SEMA-member companies’ websites weekly through the Hot Links to Cool Sites section. SEMA members: To be included in Hot Links to Cool Sites, email your company name and website to enews@sema.org. Note: Make sure to include “Hot Links” in the subject line of the email.

• Fluidampr
• Gate King
• Heidt’s Automotive Group
• Injen
• Jet Performance
• LEED Brakes
• MBRP Exhaust
• MOMO Tires
• N-Fab
• Painless Wiring

SEMA-member companies have posted several new listings for job opportunities in the Classifieds page of SEMA.org.

By SEMA Editors

The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am custom car, built by Riley Stair of Sacramento, will be inducted into the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends and will join the Hot Wheels collection as a 1:64 scale die-cast.

Mattel has announced the winner of the 2020 Hot Wheels Legends Tour. The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am custom car, built by Riley Stair of Sacramento, will be inducted into the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends and will join the Hot Wheels collection as a 1:64 scale die-cast. The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am is the third fan’s car to become a Hot Wheels die-cast and will hit store shelves worldwide in 2021. The announcement was made during the Hot Wheels Legends Tour Finale event by Ted Wu, vice president of global design for vehicles at Mattel.

The final stop was live-streamed from Jay Leno’s Garage and co-hosted by Jay Leno and motorsports ambassador Jarod DeAnda. Viewers tuned into Jay Leno’s Garage YouTube Page and Hot Wheels’ Facebook Page to see the winner determined by Hot Wheels designers and car-loving celebrity judges Jay Leno, Snoop Dogg, Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias and Brionna Lynch. Special guests including 007 driver Ben Collins, Paxton Booth and NASCAR driver Tony Stewart also participated in the event.

Riley Stair’s build was chosen from thousands of cars entered in the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, which had 14 stops throughout Europe, LATAM, Asia and North America. While all finalists who competed at the global finale event embodied Hot Wheels high standards or performance and design, the winning custom build was selected for its true representation of the Hot Wheels garage spirit.

“By going virtual, the third year of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour demonstrated tremendous growth, engaging over 10 million fans from around the world,” said Ted Wu, vice president, global head of design for vehicles, Mattel. “With more vehicle entries this year than ever before, we know we found a special build that embodies the Hot Wheels challenger spirit with the ’70 Pontiac Trans Am. You see the vehicle and instantly know it is meant to be a Hot Wheels with the unique frame, engine, and purpose-driven build.”

The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am is a one of a kind race car engineered by Riley Stair on the side of his parents’ house. Revving up to 10,000 RPM, the vehicles motor is entirely custom built, and the foundation for the engine is a 400-cubic inch LS V8.

“To have my car immortalized as a Hot Wheels die-cast for car lovers of all ages to enjoy means the world to me,” said Legends Tour Winner Riley Stair. “To think that my car in a 1:64 scale could make a lasting impression for a young kid who loves cars, as Hot Wheels have for so many of us, is a dream come true. I can’t wait to see my nephew Noah pushing my car around the living room!”

A team of judges, including Hot Wheels designers, celebrities and automotive influencers, chose the Legends Tour winner for its authenticity, originality and garage spirit. The Legends Tour winner’s life-size car and die-cast version will also join the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends, a collection of one-of-a-kind cars immortalized as Hot Wheels die-casts that meet the brand’s high benchmarks of style and performance.

The Hot Wheels Legends Tour Finale event was made possible in partnership with Mobil 1, Walmart, Ford, American Pinball, Hagerty and Horizon Brands. Learn more about the Hot Wheels Legends Tour.

By SEMA Editors

The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am custom car, built by Riley Stair of Sacramento, will be inducted into the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends and will join the Hot Wheels collection as a 1:64 scale die-cast.

Mattel has announced the winner of the 2020 Hot Wheels Legends Tour. The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am custom car, built by Riley Stair of Sacramento, will be inducted into the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends and will join the Hot Wheels collection as a 1:64 scale die-cast. The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am is the third fan’s car to become a Hot Wheels die-cast and will hit store shelves worldwide in 2021. The announcement was made during the Hot Wheels Legends Tour Finale event by Ted Wu, vice president of global design for vehicles at Mattel.

The final stop was live-streamed from Jay Leno’s Garage and co-hosted by Jay Leno and motorsports ambassador Jarod DeAnda. Viewers tuned into Jay Leno’s Garage YouTube Page and Hot Wheels’ Facebook Page to see the winner determined by Hot Wheels designers and car-loving celebrity judges Jay Leno, Snoop Dogg, Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias and Brionna Lynch. Special guests including 007 driver Ben Collins, Paxton Booth and NASCAR driver Tony Stewart also participated in the event.

Riley Stair’s build was chosen from thousands of cars entered in the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, which had 14 stops throughout Europe, LATAM, Asia and North America. While all finalists who competed at the global finale event embodied Hot Wheels high standards or performance and design, the winning custom build was selected for its true representation of the Hot Wheels garage spirit.

“By going virtual, the third year of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour demonstrated tremendous growth, engaging over 10 million fans from around the world,” said Ted Wu, vice president, global head of design for vehicles, Mattel. “With more vehicle entries this year than ever before, we know we found a special build that embodies the Hot Wheels challenger spirit with the ’70 Pontiac Trans Am. You see the vehicle and instantly know it is meant to be a Hot Wheels with the unique frame, engine, and purpose-driven build.”

The ’70 Pontiac Trans Am is a one of a kind race car engineered by Riley Stair on the side of his parents’ house. Revving up to 10,000 RPM, the vehicles motor is entirely custom built, and the foundation for the engine is a 400-cubic inch LS V8.

“To have my car immortalized as a Hot Wheels die-cast for car lovers of all ages to enjoy means the world to me,” said Legends Tour Winner Riley Stair. “To think that my car in a 1:64 scale could make a lasting impression for a young kid who loves cars, as Hot Wheels have for so many of us, is a dream come true. I can’t wait to see my nephew Noah pushing my car around the living room!”

A team of judges, including Hot Wheels designers, celebrities and automotive influencers, chose the Legends Tour winner for its authenticity, originality and garage spirit. The Legends Tour winner’s life-size car and die-cast version will also join the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends, a collection of one-of-a-kind cars immortalized as Hot Wheels die-casts that meet the brand’s high benchmarks of style and performance.

The Hot Wheels Legends Tour Finale event was made possible in partnership with Mobil 1, Walmart, Ford, American Pinball, Hagerty and Horizon Brands. Learn more about the Hot Wheels Legends Tour.

The all-new Kia Sportage, Kia’s twin to the ’21 Hyundai Tucson, is starting to take shape. A thinly-disguised (at least for Kia) prototype for the ’22 Kia Sportage has been snapped testing on the ’Ring ahead of its likely reveal in April next year. The ’22 Sportage will ride on a variation of the platform underpinning the ’21 Hyundai Tucson revealed last month. It’s expected to be longer, wider and taller than the current model—which is now looking small in comparison to the latest Toyota RAV4, despite only launching in 2015.

These images show the car will have wide fenders and sharper flanks than the current model, along with wheels that share plenty in common with those of the Hyundai Tucson. Korean Car Blog reports the Sportage won’t just be a shrunken version of the seven-seat Sorento on the outside, instead debuting its own design language.

It’s expected to be offered with gas, hybrid and plug-in hybrid drivetrains, like the Tucson.

Measuring up at 4630mm long, 1865mm wide, and 1665mm tall with a 2755mm wheelbase, the new Tucson is 15mm longer than a Toyota RAV4 with a 65mm longer wheelbase, although both are the same width. Kia’s Sportage will therefore be of similar dimensions.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

The all-new Kia Sportage, Kia’s twin to the ’21 Hyundai Tucson, is starting to take shape. A thinly-disguised (at least for Kia) prototype for the ’22 Kia Sportage has been snapped testing on the ’Ring ahead of its likely reveal in April next year. The ’22 Sportage will ride on a variation of the platform underpinning the ’21 Hyundai Tucson revealed last month. It’s expected to be longer, wider and taller than the current model—which is now looking small in comparison to the latest Toyota RAV4, despite only launching in 2015.

These images show the car will have wide fenders and sharper flanks than the current model, along with wheels that share plenty in common with those of the Hyundai Tucson. Korean Car Blog reports the Sportage won’t just be a shrunken version of the seven-seat Sorento on the outside, instead debuting its own design language.

It’s expected to be offered with gas, hybrid and plug-in hybrid drivetrains, like the Tucson.

Measuring up at 4630mm long, 1865mm wide, and 1665mm tall with a 2755mm wheelbase, the new Tucson is 15mm longer than a Toyota RAV4 with a 65mm longer wheelbase, although both are the same width. Kia’s Sportage will therefore be of similar dimensions.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

The all-new Kia Sportage, Kia’s twin to the ’21 Hyundai Tucson, is starting to take shape. A thinly-disguised (at least for Kia) prototype for the ’22 Kia Sportage has been snapped testing on the ’Ring ahead of its likely reveal in April next year. The ’22 Sportage will ride on a variation of the platform underpinning the ’21 Hyundai Tucson revealed last month. It’s expected to be longer, wider and taller than the current model—which is now looking small in comparison to the latest Toyota RAV4, despite only launching in 2015.

These images show the car will have wide fenders and sharper flanks than the current model, along with wheels that share plenty in common with those of the Hyundai Tucson. Korean Car Blog reports the Sportage won’t just be a shrunken version of the seven-seat Sorento on the outside, instead debuting its own design language.

It’s expected to be offered with gas, hybrid and plug-in hybrid drivetrains, like the Tucson.

Measuring up at 4630mm long, 1865mm wide, and 1665mm tall with a 2755mm wheelbase, the new Tucson is 15mm longer than a Toyota RAV4 with a 65mm longer wheelbase, although both are the same width. Kia’s Sportage will therefore be of similar dimensions.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

The all-new Kia Sportage, Kia’s twin to the ’21 Hyundai Tucson, is starting to take shape. A thinly-disguised (at least for Kia) prototype for the ’22 Kia Sportage has been snapped testing on the ’Ring ahead of its likely reveal in April next year. The ’22 Sportage will ride on a variation of the platform underpinning the ’21 Hyundai Tucson revealed last month. It’s expected to be longer, wider and taller than the current model—which is now looking small in comparison to the latest Toyota RAV4, despite only launching in 2015.

These images show the car will have wide fenders and sharper flanks than the current model, along with wheels that share plenty in common with those of the Hyundai Tucson. Korean Car Blog reports the Sportage won’t just be a shrunken version of the seven-seat Sorento on the outside, instead debuting its own design language.

It’s expected to be offered with gas, hybrid and plug-in hybrid drivetrains, like the Tucson.

Measuring up at 4630mm long, 1865mm wide, and 1665mm tall with a 2755mm wheelbase, the new Tucson is 15mm longer than a Toyota RAV4 with a 65mm longer wheelbase, although both are the same width. Kia’s Sportage will therefore be of similar dimensions.

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde