Has anyone heard of the Estone Car MP3 Player Ripper-510 from zMedia? It looks very much like an Empeg Unit.
http://www.z-media.us/index.asp

If you check the specs, it looks suspiciously like a somewhat updated Empeg unit, with a nicer display, built-in AM/FM tuner, and CD player. It can rip from the CD player, it can record AM/FM radio (that's a killer app), and the internal HDD is removeable, so you can update it using USB 2.0. Built-in amplifier and CDDB database.

This looks like the logical successor of the Empeg. I may have to pick one up. And keep my Empeg at home for a network MP3 player server.

George