Ever thought about what a $100,000 remodel would look like in your store? Tunes-N-Tint, Lakeland, FL took the plunge last month on a down-to-the-studs renovation with an interesting backstory. Back in December of 2015 we reported on an experiment by T…
Alpine launched a car tuning boutique in Japan earlier this year. It opened a store called Alpine Style store in Fukuoka, Japan where customers can buy a car loaded with vehicle specific Alpine products plus other upgrades such as wheels, tires, spoi…
Rockford is exploring a new use for its no-power amp technology introduced last year. The technology was found in a palm-sized car amplifier that does not require a battery connection for power. Instead the amplifier sits in the door behind each speake…
FEATURE Story: Some of the Innovation Award Winners in car electronics were announced Thursday, and others will be announced at CES. Preliminary winners include a “speakerless” audio technology called Ac2ated Sound; VOXX’s LOOK-IT wireless backup came…
FEATURE Story: Dashcams are great but they can be bulky and unsightly on the windshield. So Rostra introduced at the SEMA Show last week a hideaway dash cam “brain” that may be installed in a glovebox while two tiny cameras mount on the wi…
FEATURE Story: Pioneer, Alpine and JVCKenwood reported mixed results for the first half of the Japanese fiscal year ending September 30, 2017. Alpine reported stronger than expected growth in sales and profits. Total profits swung to a gain of $21.18 m…
FEATURE story: ESCORT, Inc announced a new radar detector for the connected car. It’s new MAX 360c includes WiFi so it can connect to a car that has built-in WiFi to issue certain alerts through the car radio. With the new MAX 360c, ESCORT Live …
FEATURE STORY: Power Acoustik announced its entry into driver safety during the SEMA Show last week. Its new products include a wireless backup camera plus backup sensor embedded in a license plate frame designed to work over WiFi with an iPhone or And…
FEATURE Kicker has developed a programmer for Harley-Davidson motorcycles that can link directly to the bike’s CAN Bus to allow the addition of aftermarket speakers and amplifiers without the need for “bandaids” such as a line output converter. The pro…
FEATURE STORY: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Once again, cars are starting to ship without CD players and once again the aftermarket may find itself in the business of adding CD players to cars that don’t include them at t…