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I think that ship has sailed, my friend.

My last car could accept a double DIN head unit but I never put one in because then I'd lose any way to control all the settings in the car. And that was a car from 2014! The integration is even tighter now.

As long as used cars exist the ship will never have sailed.

Eventually used cars will be today's new cars.

> I simply will not buy a car that won't easily accept a double DIN head unit.

Are those even a thing anymore? The vast majority of new cars have some sort of custom all-in-one dashboard display.

I don't know or care if "it's a thing anymore", there's an inexhaustible supply of existing cars with double DIN. My Subaru from 2017 has double DIN and I don't see any reason to own a more modern car than that.

When that car and any replacement are 20 years old you might see the point.

This is the reason our car with the best entertainment system is ironically my old piece of junk clunker.