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, ...

Could car compact disc players soon become a thing of the past? For Hyundai the answer looks to be yes. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, the carmaker debuted its new take on ...

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 ...

Q: We recently bought a new car and there is no CD player, which is inconvenient for us with massive CD collections. And even though I don’t smoke, I realized that cars no longer have ashtrays.

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 ...

Over time, the way that people listen to music in the car has changed dramatically. Long gone are the days of compact disc (CD) changers and even, in most cases, CD players themselves. Apple’s CarPlay ...

View post: I Lived With the Ford E-Transit for 3 Weeks, Here’s My Brutally Honest Take Who would’ve thought that in 2025, there would still be new vehicles being sold with CD players? Well, we checked ...

When it comes to media, streaming is unquestionably the standard these days and has been for quite some time. Nevertheless, some folks still prefer to have a hard copy, and yes, that includes CDs. As ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KRON) — If you purchased a new car model ...