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Just one more thing to try to scrape the ice and snow out of on a cold winter morning, when you can't even get the driver-side door open. Just one more motor/solenoid/linkage to pay $90/hour shop labor to get fixed..
How many pedestrians have been killed by hood ornaments? Doesn't MB still have the 3 pointed star? Considering the hideous headlights you see on some cars today, I wouldn't mind hiding them.
Those MB ones just fold over. I'm talking about ornaments like this:
I don't think they will make a comeback for the simple fact that manufacturers are going the LED route for their headlights. This allows the manufacturer to shape the lights anyway they want.
Growing up in the 1960s I saw the amazing evolution of "hide-away" headlights. First, when the 1963 Corvette offered them (I know: the Lotus Elan was first but the Corvette was the one that really made a difference). The 1965 Buick Riviera followed suit (BTW, the only production car to offer stacked hidden headlamps; the 1966 Riviera was designed so beautifully that most people didn't even know it had hidden headlamps!). It was all part of the James Bond-things-popping-up-and-out mentality of the time. I still think it is cool. I will never get rid of my 1992 Firebird!
There is a new trend with hidden tail lights (Google it). I think the same technology will probably eventually be used for hidden headlights. I will miss the mechanics of doors opening and gears sounding, but I look forward to the return of hidden headlights. The Corvette has not been the same to me since it exposed the headlamps.
The requirements that the main headlights be on all the time only lasted a few years.
That's truly a shame... because they are too many people who are too incompetent to remember to turn on their headlights while it's dark and rainy.
Although we have the "Wipers On, Headlights On" law here in NJ (hopefully everywhere though!)...I see people driving around with black/grey cars and zero lighting in a damn rainstorm.
ALL cars should have DRL's IMO!
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Hidden Headlights WILL Come Back!
