After Subaru redesigned the Outback in 2025, and Lexus updated the IS and discontinued the RC, the automotive market put an end to an era: There now are no new cars sold with a CD player from the ...

In-dash CD players are finally going the way of Razor scooters, shell necklaces and Ja Rule. Automakers have predicted this for the better part of the past decade as car stereos augmented the standard ...

The very first automotive compact disc player — the Pioneer CDX-1 — launched in 1984, but it wasn't until a few years later that you could purchase a new car with a factory-equipped unit. At the time, ...

Who knew? Automakers still bother sticking CD players into the dashboards of the majority of their cars. That seems strange 14 years after the iPod ushered in the intangible music revolution. But now ...

A recent report from IMS Research's Automotive Electronics Group forecasts a continuing trend toward in-car CD players that can play MP3, WMA and WAV music files. June 9, 2005 A recent report from IMS ...

NPR proclaimed the automotive CD player dead, so it must be true. On Feb. 28, NPR broadcast an interview with Michael O'Brien, SUV group marketing manager for Ford, where he announced that CD players ...

(KRON) — If you purchased a new car model within the past few years, chances are it doesn’t have a CD player. In the digital age of online streaming, CD players have become a rarity. Most cars today ...