Car News
Car audio, 12-volt, EV and marine aftermarket news, reported for the people who run the business. Market shifts, brand moves, retail trends and what they mean for dealers, reps and manufacturers, from CEoutlook, covering the industry since 2012.
Directed Files Complaint Against 3 Aftermarket Cos.
DEI Holdings (parent to Directed) and Directed Electronics Canada, filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (ITC)...
Tint World Buys Part of Avidworx
Tint World purchased the assets of Avidworx for its own displays and may offer displays to other retailers...
Amazon Ends Price Parity for 3rd Party Sellers
Amazon has quietly ended is price parity policy that prohibited its 3rd party marketplace vendors from selling elsewhere...
NAV-TV Launches Driver Safety Test Trial
NAV-TV is entering the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, ADAS, market with a new professional-grade crash warning/dashcam device. The...
Pioneer Ships 8-inch Radio and More
Pioneer is shipping its new 8-inch floating screen radio and other 2019 products including a single DIN 'docking...
Amazon Halts Orders From Many Vendors
Amazon delayed or stopped orders from many of its smaller direct vendors this week, according to reports and...
Tint World Enters Overdrive
Tint World, with car audio as one of its leading categories, is predicting enviable growth. Its present total...
Rockford Intros New RZR Audio Kits
Rockford Fosgate announced newly designed audio kits for the Polaris RZR with 40 percent lighter pods and a...
NAV-TV Enters Motorcycle Audio
NAV-TV is entering the motorcycle audio accessory market with an interface that helps bring CarPlay to older Harleys....
Alpine Shifts Focus
Alpine has shifted its focus back to general car radios after a five year strategy of fielding truck-specific...
Car Security Co. Makes US Debut
Author Alarm is a 10 year old automotive digital security company, which is coming to the US this...
SiriusXM Adds 100 Channels to App
SiriusXM Thursday debuted 100 new commercial-free music channels as part of its streaming app. In some cases, the...
Best Buy Lease-To-Own Includes Car Audio
UPDATED!! Best Buy is in the process of rolling out a lease-to-own program that will include car audio...
Phoenix Gold Dips Toe in Distribution
Phoenix Gold, a specialist car audio brand, will be available through A&W Distributors in Dallas and may be...
Kenwood Delays Some Car Radios
Kenwood is delaying some of its 2019 AV/receivers due to the bankruptcy of a key LCD panel supplier...
Kenwood, Sony, Alpine Join Forces
Kenwood, Sony, Alpine, Directed, Mitek, Crutchfield and other industry members have added their names to the list of...
Samsung’s Foldable Phone Does This
Samsung introduced Wednesday the Galaxy Fold, with a cool trick. Of course, the 7.3 inch screen folds in...
Here’s the Samsung S10
In addition to the Galaxy Fold, Samsung introduced a family of four S10 phones Wednesday with a number...
NAV-TV Cuts Prices 40 Percent on Audio Interfaces
NAV-TV announced it cut prices by as much as 40 percent on its Zen Audio series of car...
German Maestro Appoints New Master Distributor
Audio Props, a high end car audio shop in North Palm Beach, FL has been named the exclusive...