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 ...

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, ...

If you keep up with the ins and outs of new cars, you probably know that Lexus is notorious for hanging onto physical media players for way longer than they arguably have to. It was one of the last ...

We thought cassette tapes were old, but now CDs have reached that same level. Who would’ve thought that in 2025, there would still be new vehicles being sold with CD players? Well, we checked, and our ...

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 ...