News and updates and from SEMA's councils and committees.

Dates and locations for several upcoming SEMA-sponsored shows, webinars and activities have been announced.

SEMA and the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) established a strategic partnership in 2009 that focused on the future of the automotive and the specialty-equipment industries.

SEMA is supporting Virginia legislation, which proposes to reduce the number of license plates furnished by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to registered motor vehicles.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a proposed rule that will require hybrid and electric vehicles make a minimum level of sound in order to alert pedestrians and bicyclists of their presence.

Source Interlink Media has hired Scott Burgess as the new Detroit editor for Motor Trend magazine. Burgess will be Motor Trend’s Motor City expert, responsible for covering everything from vehicle launches to press briefings, as well as identifying and analyzing industry trends big and small.

The SEMA organization that serves manufacturers’ reps in the automotive aftermarket industry has changed from the Manufacturers’ Representatives Council to the Manufacturers’ Representatives Network (MRN).

U.S. Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) took time from her busy election-year schedule to speak at the Performance Warehouse Association (PWA) breakfast and tour the 2012 SEMA Show.

Irwindale Speedway Announces NASCAR Sanction Agreement for 2013 Racing Season The 2013 racing season will begin Saturday night, April 6, with a "Grand Re-Opening Night" of racing at Irwindale Speedway featuring NASCAR Super Late Models, Late Models, Super Stocks, Mini-Stocks and an evening-ending...

It has been 60 years since the first Corvette rolled off its assembly line in Flint, Michigan.A month before that first Vette was built, a Belgian-born engineer named Zora Arkus-Duntov joined Chevrolet.