Forget radio, in the 1960s-70s, people relied on physical media like 8-tracks and cassette tapes. The Highway Hi-Fi allowed you to play vinyl records in your car, but the quality wasn't great.

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 ...

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, ...

A friend of mine named Mark recently bought a new car, and there was one feature he was lamenting about not being a thing anymore: a CD player. The year is 2025, and turns out he was wrong. Over the ...

Which Bluetooth-enabled car CD player should you buy? While more cars than ever come straight from the factory with good-quality Bluetooth-enabled stereos, there are still many millions of cars ...

Since the mid-2010s, fewer and fewer new cars have been decked out with CD players. In-dash stereos are instead usually equipped with the long-standing car radio and some kind of media playback option ...