News from around the racing world.

The SEMA Education Institute (SEI) continues to build out its library of invaluable presentations for automotive specialty-equipment businesses of every type. All of the content on the new, easier-to-use learning management system, located online at www.SEMA.org/eLearning, is offered free of charge...

A SEMA-supported bill to provide for an expanded-use antique vehicle registration class that would allow antique vehicles and replicas to be driven without limitation during the warmer part of the year (April 1 through October 31) has been approved by the Senate Transportation Committee. The bill...

Legislation that originally sought to increase the age requirement for vehicles eligible for registration as “collector vehicles” was signed into law by Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire. Under the new law, vehicles seeking registration as collector vehicles and the one-time registration...

Legislation that threatened to prohibit the modification of any motor vehicle that altered the manufacturer's original suspension, steering or brake system unless the state highway patrol issued an inspection certificate was amended to remove those restrictions and signed into law by Governor Jack...

SEMA-model legislation that would create a vehicle-registration classification for street rods and custom vehicles and provide for special license plates for these vehicles was approved by the full Texas House of Representatives. The bill defines a street rod as an altered vehicle manufactured...

Looking for some of the coolest trucks and SUVs in the industry? Last year, more than 330 display trucks and SUVs made their way to Vegas for the 2010 SEMA Show. See them showing off their shiny skins in this photo collection located on www.enjoythedrive.com.

Registrations of imported cars in China surged 90.2% in 2010, according to the Japanese research company Fourin Inc., with imports topping 600,000 units last year. SUVs accounted for 51.7% of all imports during that period, based on new vehicle registration data, says Fourin’s China Automotive...

The specialty market in Russia is quite new. According to Fedor Svinin of the Saint Petersburg-based Tuning Inomarka Magazine, the market is only a little more than a decade old, noting that, “we may say that the tuning business started in our country in the late ‘90s.” But as the market comes back...