Who is Gonna Buy A New Jeep Grand Wagoneer For the MacIntosh Stereo?

@waytoomuchstuff - those were the good times!  I was finishing my main power wiring in a hurry, did not measure the battery to fuse holder lead, ended up just an inch longer than regulation.  Lost 5 points, ended up in 9th place. Arghh!  My system sounded GREAT - Eclipse head unit, Eclipse 4 x 100 amp, CDT Audio separates upfront, DD Audio 15" 3500 in the back all in a white Mazda Protege.

Those blue meters do a lot of selling for Mcintosh.  I own MC-452 and I enjoy it's sound, but I don't think I would base a car purchasing decision, especially in $100k range based on what kind of sound system is installed.  I remember back in my car audio days - @crustycoot - when Mcintosh produced seriously expensive and very clean sounding car audio amps as well as a gorgeous cd player head unit with trademark glass faceplate.  I was in IASCA finals in Greenville, SC in mid 90s and remember a guy with pink/purple Saturn that had a full surround sound system in it powered entirely by Mcintosh amps.  Crustycoot is right, they did not have the watts to compete with Precision Power, Orion and other old school amps.  Back then your car had to "burp" 140db on the dash, which is a lot.  On another hand on a recent trip to Philadelphia Alamo ran out of cars and we were given a 2021 BMW 740i with Harman Kardon upgraded factory sound system.  It sounded excellent, but to me other features about the car would be more attractive as far as making a purchasing decision, some of them were crazy, even by 7 series standards - heated armrests, adjustable ride height, GPS that knows where potholes are and warns you about them - very useful in Philly!  Sorry if you are from Philadelphia, but your entire city needs repaving asap. This would not be a first collaboration with car manufacturer for Mcintosh, they did one back in early 2000s with Subaru, if memory serves you could only get that stereo in LL Bean edition Outback and that car was over $30k back then.  Just my $0.03 cents ($0.02 cents inflation adjusted).