Yahoo Autos 2023 Subaru WRX Long-Term Update: The CD player lives!
If Usher’s Super Bowl halftime performance deeply resonated with you — perhaps his songs were the soundtrack to how you met your significant other — then the significance of having a CD player in your car is obvious. At least it was, say, 20 years ago.
That’s why many Autoblog editors of a certain age were excited to hear our long-term 2023 Subaru WRX offers an optional compact disc player for $375. We couldn’t check that box fast enough.
CD players were common on vehicles into the 2010s, after usurping the cassette player as the mobile music option of choice in the 1990s. Now, with multiple streaming options, satellite radio and whatever tunes you might carry around on your phone, CD players have all but disappeared on new cars.
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