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So much for the cordiality.
I am flexible. I would prefer a CD with nice graphics and intelligent and informed liner notes but if the only way I'm going to get a particular score is download, hey, I'm in.
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Last year I rented over a dozen cars over a six month period and every single one had a CD player. Most were very recent models with low mileage, too.
I'm surprised. Few new cars in the UK have CD players now. I bought a new car last week and there was no CD player and I didn't expect one. My previous 4 year old car had a CD player as well as USB and I found it far more convenient to copy as many CDs as I like onto a USB stick, without having CDs cluttering up the vehicle.
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From what I've seen and heard, one of the biggest demands for CD players in cars comes from teenagers and young people.
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Being a Baby Boomer, technology has outpaced my aging brain cells. I can text on my phone and handle some computer functions, and that is about it. I’ve never downloaded anything, and I really don’t want to learn.
Therefore I rely on CDs. However, I have become VERY DEPRESSED in the past few days. I just ordered a 2018 Kia Sportage, the top of the line Sportage. I picked it up last week, and the seller took me through all the options. Oh, my aching head. I just wanted to set up my Sirius radio, learn where drive, neutral, reverse and park were and move on. 
He started to show me all of these fancy features including where I could play Pandora, etc. and I waved him away. I didn’t need to confuse my aging mind anymore.
Three days ago I took my CDs out to play because I play my film scores in my car. @#$%^&@#$%6 it!!! There was no CD player in this car!!! NONE. I called the dealership, and they said most new cars have drop CD players, and that I could download music to this and that and this and that.
Moreover, most stores in my area are phasing out CDs. Yes, I can buy CDs on line, but my car doesn’t have a player. If you are driving, you can’t put a portable CD player into your car and wear earphones because that is just plain unsafe.
I am pissed off and bereft.
Beware when you buy your next car.
Joan, if your new Kia is, indeed, top-of-the-line, then it will have a USB socket. (At least, that's what Kia's US site claims). All you need to do is rip your CDs to MP3 (there's plenty of reliable, and free, tools to do this; Windows even comes with some) and copy the files to a USB stick. Insert said stick in your car's USB socket, and hey presto!, you've got your collection with you again.
Tips:
Buy the largest capacity USB you can find. The more music you have, the more space it will take.
When you rip your music, don't use a higher bit-rate than 128kHz. A car is far from the ideal listening environment, and I promise you won't be able to hear the difference between this and loss-less. Besides, reducing the bit-rate reduces the space taken, and therefore increases the amount of music you can fit on your USB stick.
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The only advantage digital has over CDs is physical storage. There is absolutely no other advantage.
Then we have to assume you haven't heard a hi-res download versus the same recording on CD.
And we have to assume you have never heard a hi-res CD.
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Really? I have three teenagers (not a scientific sampling), and none of them nor any of their friends (also not a scientific sampling) owns a single CD.
A friend of mine is in her early twenties, and she and her friends listen to CD-Rs (mixed tapes essentially) in the car. I also came across a recent article in Crutchfield covering a couple who redesigned an older car's audio system. Their decision to include a stereo with a CD player was based not on their preference but on their 14-year-old daughter's.
There have also been articles detailing how teenagers purchase music by first downloading an album and then later rebuying the album on CD for the collectibility. I think I posted one of them here, but that was a number of years ago now. Maybe it's changed. I don't know. Maybe they now collect vinyl instead for the bigger artwork.
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