The Senate Judiciary Committee approved by a 10-0 vote legislation to help shut down rogue websites that sell counterfeit goods. Entitled the “Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act” (PROTECT IP), the SEMA-supported bill would authorize the...

Booking your hotel rooms through Travel Planners, the official SEMA Show Housing Bureau, will ensure you the best rates possible, and booking early is more important than ever with many hotels offering special “early-bird” rates to SEMA exhibitors and attendees, many of which expire in August.

The Business Services category at the SEMA Show is experiencing significant growth, and more companies are committing to the Show earlier than ever. According to Show Management, the number of exhibitors in the section year-to-date, as of May 23, has increased 37% compared to the 2010 Show.

The vehicle photo gallery on enjoythedrive.com includes more than 2,000 pictures of the vehicles on display at the 2010 SEMA Show. The database is searchable by vehicle make, model, year and more. A selection of vehicles is included in SEMA eNews each week. This week's highlighted vehicles are all...

NEWS NUGGETS WORLD CHAMP DIXON HOPES ENGLISHTOWN RECORD WILL HELP SECURE FIRST WIN OF 2011, BROWN HOPES MID-SEASON SUCCESS WILL BRING FIRST WIN AT ‘HOMETOWN’ TRACK: It’s been a long first half of the regular season for defending Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon. After racing to 12 wins in 12...

Steve McBride Named Director of Ohio Technical College Racing Program Ohio Technical College named Steve McBride director of the High Performance & Racing Program, where he will oversee students who are learning skills to become a high-performance race team technician or performance shop owner...

The next-generation Ford Escape has been spied many times in the last several months, but the shooters at Brenda Priddy & Co. supplied some up-close pics of the Ford Sync-equipped interior.

Mobile marketing is the fastest-growing marketing opportunity in human history. If that sounds overstated, consider that worldwide shipments of smartphones in 2010 alone—mobile phones running a BlackBerry, Android, Apple, Palm or Windows operating system with advanced features, such as Internet...

The Motorsports Parts Manufacturers Council (MPMC) changed the date of its annual Long-Range Planning (LRP) meeting. The change represents just one of the things MPMC Chairman Kyle Fickler and Chair-Elect Vic Wood are implementing in hopes of charting a course for MPMC’s future.

Realizing that the industry needs new tools to help companies survive, in January 2009, SEMA launched the monthly SEMA Financial Benchmarking program. More than 6,500 companies have participated to date, giving the automotive aftermarket industry unparalleled access to benchmarks and key performance...