Hey Guys im thinking of some new niche for a real shell replacement.
LiteStep, its was big in the day before XP and vista, it pretty much replaces explorer in a way with fully customizable features, you could do just about anything you want visually they also have a lot of modules that plug in with the shell which I think would kick *** for a CarPC
The community is small now and probably dwindling down, not much activity and development but I think since that time the mobile industry and carPC’s have come about, I think LiteStep would be a great thing if it was created or modified for carPC environment. Think of full skins not just liminted programs that load and run in a windowed mode, im talking the whole thing, of course XP and even nt as well as win98 hold on to some things, like the file explorer and stuff but over all you can replace the crap looking generic feel of windows with something really unique and carPC friendly as in touch friendly
www.Litestep.net is a big place still as well as
http://www.lsdev.org/doku.php