eBay Motors will return for the third consecutive year as the presenting sponsor of the Pinewood Drag Races in support of the SEMA Cares children's charities. Held in conjunction with the annual SEMA Installation Banquet & Gala Fundraiser, the SEMA Cares Pinewood Drag Races will take place July 29...

Chevrolet will add a special program to its 2011 SEMA Show strategy. This program will highlight its new small-car entry—the Sonic—seeking accessory-based projects from the specialty-equipment market.

Whether you’re a small-business owner, on the IT staff or in charge of marketing and sales, you can’t afford to miss these five essential business technology super sessions, presented by leading industry experts.

At SEMA’s request, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently extended its “Parts in Progress” (PIP) program until September 30, 2011. she program was slated to conclude on June 30, 2011. The program was initiated in light of California's inclusion of light- and medium-duty diesel vehicles...

SEMA members are invited to attend several networking events, including a seminar on the UAE specialty-equipment market on June 8, and a SEMA-sponsored dinner with selected key accessories and performance distributors.

Legislation to provide that classic vehicles and classic rods would be exempted from emissions inspections if owners pay a one-time $6 fee and submit a certification that their vehicle will not be driven more than 5,000 miles per year was passed by the Senate Transportation Committee and will now be...

SEMA-supported legislation 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) was approved unanimously by the full Illinois Senate. The bill...

SEMA members are heading to Beijing, China, September 7–10, 2011, for the SEMA CIAPE China Business Development Conference to learn about the potential for their products in the vast Chinese market. Focus groups with local media, one-on-one meetings with buyers from all regions of China and other...

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, which provides duty-free treatment to several thousand products imported into the United States from more than two-thirds of the world's countries expired at the end of last year.

Depending on your budget, there are many options when it comes to booth design at the 2011 SEMA Show, said Jeff Pressman, CEM, ConvExx president, in his “Best Practices in Booth Design” seminar at the recent SEMA Exhibitor Summit in Las Vegas.