I didn't say it was for "road noise". Car stereos was one of the popular places for listening CDs at the height of loudness war.

> So the recording and mastering engineers began to produce recordings with limited dynamic range that would sound "better" on iPods and car stereos that are used in areas with more ambient noise than a quiet listening room. [1]

> Today, many people listen to music primarily in the car or other noisy places, where louder music cuts through against the background noise. Record companies, especially today, tend to cater to this market of casual, “on-the-go” listeners and make heavy use of compression and limiting in order to make their album louder. [2]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/dbremaster/home/-loudness-war-...

[2] https://www.grin.com/document/206816

Not for the reason GP mentioned, but you can increase the loudness much more on CDs than on vinyl, since on vinyl the needle physically jumps out if the loudness is constantly high, so it needs to be mastered with more dynamic range. There is also the thing that the high bitrate/high sampling rate masterings sound much better in that regard, since they target a different audience

Sure, if you deliberately refuse to interpret the context.

Vinyl releases have a different target market and are mastered with more fidelity in mind, while CD releases are mainstream, and have been mastered with small dynamic range for decades because of the loudness war.

I'm surprised I had to spell this out explicitly.

https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness...