You can now take your love of Snap, Crackle, and Pop on the road (not about Rice Crispies!)

[eddantes]

https://jalopnik.com/the-lexus-is-wax-edition-is-the-pinnacle-of-car-audio-s-1846530785

That's right... Lexus has inserted a turntable into the glovebox of an IS...

While it will never be in production, and surely the reson to do it is for people like me to say "Hey, y'all WTF!?" and post a link - so we're talking about Lexus...

Still - hey y'all WTF! G'dam hipster millenials ruining gloveboxes now!

(all in jest - in case it's not obvious)

 

[egellings]

Hadn't automotive vinyl turntables been attempted much earlier in automotive history?

 

[NTK]

Stepper motor ?

 

[Hugo9000]

Another example of "everything old is new again."

They were available in 1956.

That one took proprietary records. Later, RCA marketed a model that could play standard 45 RPM records. There were a few other brands who tried to make a go of it as well. LOL Before my time, but I recalled reading about them a while back when looking up music media formats and history.

 

[Ken1951]

Hadn't automotive vinyl turntables been attempted much earlier in automotive history?

Yep. Mid-50s for sure. More than one auto manufacturer.

 

[eddantes]

I knew you pedantic SOBs would take all the fun out of this ;-)

 

[egellings]

Dad burn it!

 

[somebodyelse]

Stepper motor ?

Not necessarily a problem...
https://www.trinamic.com/solutions/...timate-fidelity-with-advanced-motion-control/

 

[NTK]

Not necessarily a problem...
https://www.trinamic.com/solutions/...timate-fidelity-with-advanced-motion-control/

Article mentioned "200 steps in one rotation", not quite micro-stepping.

But anyway, this isn't the only problem with the concept or its implementation.

 

[Sgt. Ear Ache]

I can see Fremer cruising along with the back seat stacked full of vinyl.

 

[FrantzM]

I would have loved to assist at the meeting where they decided to go ahead with that harebrained idea, rather than fire the dimwit(s?) who came up with it !!! I mean... WTF!!!!

 

[somebodyelse]

I would have loved to assist at the meeting where they decided to go ahead with that harebrained idea, rather than fire the dimwit(s?) who came up with it !!! I mean... WTF!!!!

It's a concept car - including harebrained ideas is often a requirement! It's got them some publicity, so job done.