Good question. Wikipedia says the 1992 Jag XJ220 had covers that hide away their lights, and the last car they listed using pop-up lights was the 2004 Lotus Elise and 2004 C5. Ferrari also had a nicely done popup in 2003...


Looks like Lotus is ditching the pop-ups as well... here's a spy photo of their 2009 Elise mule... cool lights, but not pop-up.



Seems like cost, weight, and style changes have finally caught up with the pop-up light.

 

Agreed, then it will match the Camaro that I own now.

 

Thats why they put the slots in the chrome headlight doors on the Camaros....the headlights would still show through them if the doors didnt open. I believe that later models of the corvette had manual vacuum controls to open the doors in case of failure of the mechanism (my 69 did not have this). The mechanism was spring loaded so that vacuum actually kept the doors closed...so that in case of failure the doors would default to the open position for safety purposes.

 

I wish to hell my Trans An didn't have them. About a year ago I paid like $400 to fix the driver side motor. Now the passenger side is doing the exact same thing. It still goes up and down fine, but when you arm/disarm the alarm or turn the lights off they close and then this God awful sound happens for like 10 seconds. It sounds like the car is about to blow up or something. REALLY embarrassing. People are like: "Nice car, what the Hell is that noise?"

 

OMG! I totally can't wait until they're out! Black on black with some nice custom pink racing stripes.... ooooh yeaaaaah.

 

stripped gear... easy fix... do a search. Get a brass gear and never deal with it again.

 

With doors that wide it should be legal to park in the middle of two spots so both driver and passanger can get out with ease

 

Naw... passengers can get out before parking.

And you shouldn't be parking in lots that tight anyway

 

Very nice !!!

 

Whens this bad boy coming out on the market?

 

Holy old thread batman!