Alpine established an active, positive presence in major events, both domestic and overseas, including motor vehicle shows and electronics shows. We promoted our advanced, digital-era mobile media systems at motor shows throughout the world—in sites such as Tokyo, Frankfurt, Detroit and Shanghai. In cooperation with Alps Electric, we strengthened our innovative technology proposals as the only exhibiting company in this industry in the Frankfurt and Detroit Motor shows. And we garnered high evaluation and interest from the entire automotive industry.
We also announced our new products for 2006, among them the portable Blackbird and the iPod Direct Link CD player, in the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held in Las Vegas—and we received many awards, including the "Best of Innovations" prize. What's more, the exhibition spotlighted our custom demo car packed to the hilt with Alpine's most sophisticated mobile media components—a vehicle that once again this year was selected by popular vote as the number one demo car.

Through our high-profile exhibitions and demo cars in domestic events in Japan, including the Tokyo Auto Salon, Alpine demonstrated its high-quality sound for the digital era with the new digital amps and the DDLinear speaker line—for car audio fans who are highly interested in customizing their own mobile AV systems.