The first Compact Disc players were sold to the general public in late 1982, and Japanese manufacturer Pioneer offered the first in-dash CD player for cars in 1984. For 1986, Sony countered with the first automotive trunk-mounted CD changer, and Pioneer came back with the DEX-77 AM/FM/CD unit… and this disturbing magazine advertisement showing an intensely mid-80s Patrick Nagel-style woman with a DEX-77 installed in her face. Things in Pioneer Land got even weirder the following year, with the very cocainey “Auto-Erotica” ads for cassette decks and graphic equalizers.
Pioneer was the future back then.