Washington, DC -- Responding to the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s lawsuit to allow production of replica vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued proposed regulations to implement the 2015 Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act. SEMA sued the U.S. Department of Transportation in October 2019 for failure...

Diamond Bar, CA -- The Specialty Equipment Market Association filed a petition Oct. 17 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California requiring that the U.S. Department of Transportation fulfill a Congressional mandate on implementing carmaker guidelines for building turnkey replica vehicles.Photo: Factory Five RacingPassed by Congress in 2015,...

U.S. Department of Transportation partners with the Ad Council to promote peer-produced videos on the dangers of distracted driving, with Mazda Motorsports providing scholarship money to the winners. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Mazda Motorsports, National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS), U-Haul and the...