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Some engineers say CD players will be designed out of vehicles by 2015, doomed by a rising tide of portable digital music players and high-tech MP3-playing cell phones.
Hear Ward's AutoWorld Editor Drew Winter's latest take on the auto industry in his weekly report on Detroit's WJR radio:
