# AM radio being removed from cars

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-radio-being-removed-from-cars/984081
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** radio-podcast
**Created:** [May 15, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-radio-being-removed-from-cars/984081 "2023-05-15T14:29:50Z")
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### Author: ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-radio-being-removed-from-cars/984081/8 "2023-05-15T15:11:52Z")

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> [@aceplace57](#):
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> I think of standard car radios as a fixed design. Factories spit them out by the hundreds of thousands. I doubt the wholesale cost to Ford is more than $25 on a vehicle that sells for almost 50k.

Whatever the wholesale cost of a radio module they will pay just as much for the one without AM. They don’t want to support something most customers don’t want, and the ones that do want it will complain about interference. I knew a guy who had an old truck with no radio. Know what he did? Bought what we called back then a ‘transistor radio’, a small battery operated radio that he kept in the truck. I’m sure you could find one that you could plug into the thing that’s not a cigarette lighter.

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