 Stock and aftermarket compact disc players began appearing in the late 1980s, competing with the cassette.The first car with an OEM CD player was the 1987 Lincoln Town Car, and the last new cars in the American market to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck in the dashboard was the 2010 Lexus SC430, and the Ford Crown Victoria.The car cassette adapter, invented by , allowed motorists to plug in a portable music player (CD player, MP3 player) into an existing installed cassette tape deck.