The May 2013 issue of SEMA News features the annual SEMA Membership Directory. This 230-page industry sourcebook is ideal for connecting with other leading companies in the specialty-equipment industry all year long.

SEMA-supported legislation to allow the owner of a motor vehicle trailer, semi-trailer or pole trailer manufactured in the year 1948, 1949 or 1950 to display a single original Montana license plate that is affixed to the rear of the vehicle was approved by the Montana Senate Highways and...

Working with a group of Maine businesses, SEMA successfully opposed legislation that would have required the State Police to authorize a person to modify a vehicle by lifting its suspension.

Motivating a sales team takes more than a "one-size-fits-all" approach. Factors such as time, tactfulness and the ability to adapt can make the difference between motivating employees with the appropriate support or losing their attention and suffering the consequences of an unmotivated, disengaged...

Collector Car Appreciation Day will be here sooner than you think! The SEMA Action Network (SAN) is maintaining and publicizing a list of scheduled events to commemorate America’s time-tested love affair with the automobile.

There is little doubt that motorsports has matured as a mainstream sporting genre in the last five decades, helping to grow the performance aftermarket into a stable, nearly $30-billion industry. Of course, the hope is that both motorsports and the industry will also stay forever young amid this...

As part of a broad effort to achieve comprehensive tax reform, the draft “Tax Reform Act of 2013” has been released by the House Ways and Means Committee to simplify the tax code for small businesses and spur job creation.

To help answer any remaining questions racing professionals may have, Performance Racing Industry (PRI) has compiled answers to the most frequently asked questions it has encountered regarding SEMA’s purchase of the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS).

ProMedia Events has announced that the Chevrolet Performance LSX Challenge Series is back for 2013. The racing series is for street-based vehicles powered by Chevrolet’s LS and LSX engines and it takes place at four select events around the United States.

For one week each year, the SEMA Show gathers the largest collection of outfitted, upgraded dirt shredders, people haulers and street machines that exist with the specialty-equipment industry.