Cars without CD players will become the norm in the next five years, according to Automotive News. Around 331,000 cars will be sold without CD players by the end of this year, said to John Canali, an ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...