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, ...

The last new car on sale in Britain featuring an in-car CD player has been updated – with the CD player being replaced by a modern touchscreen unit. It concludes the gradual demise of CD players in ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

If you want entertainment on a drive, there’s no shortage of options to choose from. Streaming services, podcasts (may I suggest The InEVitable?!), satellite radio, and good old-fashioned AM/FM radio ...

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 ...

DEARBORN, MICH. — CD players in automobiles could be sent the way of eight-track tapes by in-dash systems such as one Ford and Microsoft are jointly producing. The "Sync" system being unveiled today ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...