The future of in-car entertainment: Music, cinema and gaming

Today's car buyers are less interested in horsepower and more in entertainment systems. Manufacturers are responding with increasingly complex and luxurious systems for in-car video and audio. John Lennon's "Imagine" has never sounded so good behind the wheel. — Photo: Mercedes-Benz AG/dpa

MUNICH: Dozens of speakers, subwoofers, and amplifiers while sound transducers convert music signals into vibrations in the seat: modern entertainment systems in luxury-class cars are increasingly becoming a selling point.

The song "Boom" by DJ Tiësto blasts through the interior, burrowing into every fibre of the body during a demonstration by Mercedes of its in-car audio system.