It’s now also available on the Gold Coast as well, where you have other DAB-only stations such as Hot Tomato Gold, as well as some of the other stations that are also available in Brisbane. 
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True. But every time I’ve been on the GC recently the lure of Breeze, Rebel and 94.1 is enough to keep me on FM and I don’t generally flick to DAB there. If Breeze and Rebel were on DAB there, I would.
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Hot Tomato Gold is a good listen.
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I still listen to The Breeze too.
In this Mazda I can programme favourite FM and DAB stations all together ,makes it easier to find stations
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Yeah same with mine. So much easier to program AM/FM/DAB all together. I keep an AM preset on 4BH just for the tunnels 
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This isn’t about car radios in general,I’m wondering exactly when CD players were no longer installed in new cars ?My 2 year old Mazda CX-3 doesn’t ,the first car I’ve owned that doesn’t have one
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I’d say when Bluetooth audio music (some earlier cars with Bluetooth is phone call only) functionality got popular. Previous to that it would be an aux port or USB for iPod/iPhone.
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I think only from about 2018-19 onwards.
My 2016 Ford Focus had one, but my 2020 Mazda 6 doesn’t.
A far cry from the 6 disc stacker my 2008 Holden Calais had! But then that didn’t have RDS, let alone DAB+.
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No one plays CDs these days,that’s probably why car manufacturers discontinued installing CD players and including DAB radio and wireless or wired CarPlay or Android Auto instead. My old Mazda 2 did have a CD player and a USB port,for playing USB files,it wasn’t equipped for Apple CarPlay,I added that in myself.My 2009 Toyota Yaris had AM/FM radio,a CD player and AUX port , for plugging in your iPhone or iPod when they were still around for listening to music . It didn’t have Bluetooth though.My ASX was the first car I owned that had Bluetooth functionality.
The very first car I owned ,a 1978 Datsun 200B , only had a push button AM radio 
Car entertainment and technology has come a long way in the last decade or so
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I still remember many years ago I had a friend who had a 1990s model Nissan Patrol and he had installed a Kenwood external 8-disc cd stacker. My car which is considered old in itself already has an aux and a 6-disc stacker. But I have never used either lol.
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Then there were push button AM and FM radios,Then came car radio cassette players ,I’m going way back now as I bought my very first car in 1982 ,that only had a push button AM radio, I remember adding in a cassette player later on , I thought that was high tech
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The first car Radio I ever came across was similar to this, in my Dad’s old 1960s Morris Minor.
It didn’t even have push button presets, but had callsigns on the dial instead of numbers.
I was intrigued wondering what all the letters meant and where they were from!
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I remember being excited when I got my first car that had a CD player,about my 4th one I think?That was my 2000 Daihatsu Cuore
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The new model Subaru Foresters still come with CD players - one of the few cars on the market to do so I believe
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Yes, the Forester I had in WA recently (probably 2020-21 model) had a CD player … I didn’t use it though!
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Pretty funny how back when all my friends first got there licenses the first thing they would do was replace either the cassette player or the crap cd player with some really expensive one they got from Supercheap. These days this wouldn’t happen Unless you replace your shitty Cd player with some expensive multi use iPad type thing that does pretty much everything lol.
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Most young people these days go for amps and subs to get the doof doof sound you can hear three suburbs away.
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I used to always replace the factory sound system (CD stacker, AM stereo) until they started using better quality systems with features that were harder to replace like steering wheel controls etc. Not to the extent of filling the boot space with components but once there was a large amp under the driver’s seat.
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Though I think the sound quality in most base model systems has gotten worse, even if there are more features. The Forester I had in WA is a good example, rubbish sound. I guess it’s a way of keeping costs down and for dealers to try and entice buyers to move up to a higher spec model that has a branded sound system like Bose or JBL.
But hopefully the base level sound isn’t too expensive to fix - an amp under the front seat with better speakers should work, probably cost $1k or so?
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I did have a car (2002 Holden VX Commodore Berlina) that had a rare set up…
A CD player AND cassette deck! (along with AM and FM). Also had an auxiliary input for MP3 players. Most cars only usually had either a cassette or CD, not both.
Looked like this one
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