If you are going to CES, check out the Visteon booth (4919 I believe) and ask to see their MP3 Jukebox head unit concept. The software may seem rather familiar..

Features include:

Fully self contained in-dash design
Large full colour TFT display
Internal hard drive
Slot load CD drive for playback and ripping of Audio and MP3 Data CD's
"Soup View" content selection (now called Rio LogicTrack)
Background encoding for fast CD recording
Full colour visualisations that react to the music

..and many of the other features found in Rio Central and the car player.

Thanks to Visteon for letting me talk about it here. For those who don't know of Visteon, they are one of the largest automotive suppliers in the world and supply the 19 largest vehicle manufacturers worldwide as well as the aftermarket. We have worked closely with them on projects since 1999 are pleased to be working together on this exciting concept.

As a point of trivia, the Tux start-up animation was created by our very own tfabris :-)

Rob