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A 12V Dealer’s Success Story in Marketing 101
You may remember the old school car audio dealer, with the cluttered shop that took our CEoutlook Challenge...
Arc Audio Adds Bluetooth Streaming to PS8
Arc Audio is adding Bluetooth audio streaming to its PS8 digital signal processor along with the ability to...
Watch New Car Stereo Ads From MESA
Here’s one of the latest ads from the Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA) buying/marketing group promoting various...
A Millennial’s Car Stereo Story
Jaren Digos is 19 and has been in the navy for a year. He’s on shore duty all...
Samsung Intros Connect Auto
Samsung announced a new WiFi hotspot for the car. Its Connect Auto is a dongle that plugs into...
30 Things Car Audio Installers Can’t Do
Car audio installers are sometimes asked to do more than just install great car sound. A customer might...
Hertz Enters Marine Audio
Hertz will ship in April new marine audio speakers and amplifiers, in its first entry into the marine...
New Aftermarket HUD Debuts in Q3
Hudway is expected to start selling a low cost car dock in the third quarter that converts your...
Harman Tech Named For Innovation by Fast Company
Harman International Industries announced it was recognized by Fast Company as one of the Top Ten Most Innovative...
New Radar Detector Technology Stops False Alerts
A new radar technology to stop false alerts in radar detectors has been announced by Whistler. The proliferation...
Rostra Appoints New Product Development Manager
Rostra Precision Controls announced Chris Luft has joined the company's Product Development team as Applications Engineering Manager. Luft...
A Dashboard Tablet With Safety and More
A new “dashboard tablet” called OverDryve brings crash warning, music and other features to any car. It also...
Pioneer, Alpine, JVCKenwood Report Sales
The last few months of 2015 saw mixed results from leading car stereo companies who are benefiting from...
Kicker Displays Its First Marine Deck at Miami Boat Show
Kicker announced it will display its first marine head unit, the KMC2 Gauge-Style Media Center at the 2016...
A Free DashCam To Collect Your Data
That’s what Android Founder Andy Rubin is working on. Rubin plans to give away a dashcam to drivers...
Fed Seeks To Ban Home Grown Race Cars
SEMA said new proposals by the Fed would ban the time old practice of converting street cars in...
Diamond Audio Significantly Lowers Prices
Diamond Audio announced price reductions of an average 25 percent on select 2016 amplifier models. Certain subwoofer and...
Alpine Sells Through 100 Jeep Dealers
For 6 months, Alpine Electronics has been actively working with car dealerships to sell its Restyle line of...
Directed Launches New Dealer Program
Directed launched a new program for its key retailers last month, offering pricing discounts, priority technical support and...
First 4G “Dropcam” for Car?
A startup called Caruma Technologies plans to offer in the third quarter, the first “dropcam” for the car—a...