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.
CarPlay Crushes Tablet Installs
One of the side effects of the rise of CarPlay is that tablet installations in the dashboard have...
New Car Audio Interface Makes Siri Look Dumb
A new super intelligent assistant that could work with any device, including in-car devices, is being launched by...
AAMP Intros Truck-Specific Drive Assist Camera System
EchoMaster, an AAMP Global company, announced one of the first blind spot monitoring systems designed for a specific...
Alpine Ships Largest CarPlay Radio
Alpine Electronics of America is now shipping a CarPlay radio with a 9-inch screen that works specifically with...
Pioneer Reveals Plans for Car-Specific Radios
Pioneer released a roadmap for its future products today, which said it will develop consumer car radios that...
ME Magazine Announces Top 50 Retailers; Installers
Mobile Electronics magazine today announced the Top 50 Retailers, and the Top 50 Installers of the year. The...
Boss Audio Enters Light Bars
Boss Audio says it will enter the powersports lighting segment late this year or early next year. The...
Apple Wrecks 12 Volt Shipping Timelines
One reason CarPlay works so well is Apple's strict certification process, but that process is also wreaking havoc...
A Personal Story Installing Interlocks
Seventeen years ago, Harry Lichtman of Depot Auto Sound, NY started providing ignition interlock devices because it seemed...
Pioneer Adds Spotify to Basic CD Receivers
Pioneer Electronics announced Friday six new CD receivers and a CD-less receiver all with Spotify, allowing users to...
JVC Kenwood Forecasts Sales for Coming Year
JVC Kenwood is forecasting a small increase in sales for its new fiscal year which ends March 31,...
Verdict is in on First Quarter Sales
We reported that the tax refund season was slow to materialize for some car stereo specialists this year,...
Is Car Stereo Among the Top 50 Products of All Time
Time Magazine has listed the top 50 tech products (by brand) that changed our world. There was one...
Money Maker Few Car Stereo Shops Talk About
For some car audio retailers, installing ignition interlocks that help prevent drunk driving, is a significant and reliable...
Top Selling Car AV/Radios for Q1
The top selling car AV deck for the first quarter of this year was the Pioneer AVH-4100NEX ($700)...
10 Tips To Boost Store Margins
The most profitable companies in the world achieve margins over 20 percent like Microsoft, Apple and Exxon Mobile....
This is How Hot Car Tech is Now
Drivers are willing to pay up to 10 percent of a new car’s value, above the car price,...
SiriusXM Continues Hints at SXM 17
SiriusXM says it is expanding user trials of a new platform code named SXM 17 that combines both...
Prominent Vendor Joins Car Stereo Distributor Group
The car audio industry’s first distributor group, the Elite Distributor Alliance, has added a new prominent vendor, Metra...
Alpine Names New President
Alpine Electronics, the parent company to Alpine Electronics of America, has named Nobuhiko Komeya, currently the company’s Senior...