Law and Order is an update of some of the most recent federal and state legislative and regulatory issues that could potentially impact the automotive specialty-equipment industry.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has a stern warning for businesses secretly using bloggers and others in social media to endorse products and services: We’re coming after you.

Being knowledgeable on issues that affect your customers is good business. On that topic, one of the biggest challenges impacting off-road enthusiasts is the closure of public lands to motorized recreation.

SEMA News is interviewing top distributors/retailers in China in a series of monthly articles to introduce the larger players in the evolving specialty-equipment market in China to the magazine’s readers.

SEMA News recently talked with Stuart Charity, executive director of the nearly 30-year-old Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA), and Ben Bartlett, the AAAA’s national membership manager, about the Australian specialty-equipment market amid increasingly positive news that Australia...

Roger Penske gave up a successful racing career to open his first car dealership in 1965, but that didn’t keep him away from the track.

For the 2009 SEMA Show, the association not only strove to deliver on its proven traditions but also aimed to introduce new avenues for success.

With the clock ticking and under intense pressure, four teams of high-school students pitted their skills against each other as they disassembled and rebuilt high-performance Chevy 350 engines at the first-ever Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge.

Roy Littlefield, executive vice president of the Tire Industry Association (TIA), gives lectures to students as part of his “hobby”—a job as an adjunct professor of politics and American history at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.