What was the last car to have pop-ups? The 2001 NSX?
>"The last time pop-up headlamps appeared on a volume-production car was in 2004 when both the Lotus Esprit and C5 Corvette ended production."
>>14944417
II think it was the C5 Corvette.
E S P R I T
and c5
Lotus Esprit and Corvette
The esprit is also the nicest looking car with pop-ups ever.
>>14944525
>not the FD RX-7
I think you got something mixed up there friendo
Y'know I was gonna say C5, but I took a second to look it up and that might not be correct. c5's went out of production in 2004, and the NSX went out of production in 2005.
So, maybe?
>>14944417
The 2 last production cars to have popups were the 2004 Chevrolet C5 Corvette and the 2004 Lotus Esprit.
>>14945017
The FD RX-7 was killed in 2002, so yea. It was the Esprit and Corvette
>>14945039
scratch that, C5.
2002 facelift on NSX replaced the pop-ups.
>>14945044
He was saying the FD3S is the best looking car with popups
>>14944438
>>14944505
>>14944525
>>14945042
If you want to split hairs, the Esprit ended production February 2004, and the C5 ended production July 2004.
http://www.c5registry.com/membersonly/Production/2004/index.htm
So the C5 would be the very last, by 5 months.
Is there a particular reason why we haven't had any cars in the past ten years with them? Style, safety,etc?
>>14945558
Increases drag reducing muh mpg. More breakable parts increasing overall cost. People hate nice things. Etc
>>14945558
Mostly because of pedestrian safety. Getting run over is a lot nicer if you don't get stuck behind some popup headlights.
>>14945102
You better fucking believe murrica held on to them sexy fuckers the longest. While we're on the subject the c5 was the sveltest sleekest vette ever produced. Looks like an rx7 with some extra T E S T added
2004 Corvette C5 and 2004 Lotus Esprit
supposedly some of those C5's have automatic headlights, can you imagine this retrofuture shit, the lights popping on their own?
>>14945558
Laws changed to allow headlights of more sizes and shape, and of plastic.
It ended the need to hide the ungainly sized lamps when not in use.
>>14945558
Europes laws for pedestrian safety makes it ludicrously expensive to develop a car with conforming popups these days.
>>14945754
and in the cost and weight of individual covers, motors along with the normal headlight then look at a pop up headlight as a bean counter looking to save a couple bucks on each car and as an engineer looking to shed every ounce of weight they can
rip
>>14945558
they also weigh allot and take up space in the wheel arch
>>14945558
they could be used to get around minimum lamp hight laws while still having a low front
but then having a low front got b& and low angle beam projectors became cheep
>>14945769
I hate europe so fucking much
I'm dutch
This thread is so depressing.
All I want are pop-ups, please. And they're never coming back.
Non pop-up hidden headlights are cool too
>>14946117
damn, son
>born too early to explore the galaxy
>born too late to buy a new car with pop-ups
>>14946431
even though it wasn't really
>>14945652
>there are people on /o/ that believe this
>>14946425
>>14946425
At least it was good looking. Holy fuck what is even going on with that Civic.
>>14946425
a ford model t is also slower than most cars
>>14946431
easy to drive at lest
but I like c4 better
>>14946435
projection
>>14946436
what are you a calculator
>>14946417
>born just in time to buy a pop up light car with invincible nip i4 for 5k
>>14946459
>>14946496
proof that these are manufactured and never legitimate
Everyone who thinks they are cool never had a car that had them in the Great Lakes states.
Can any of you remember leaving them permanently in the up position from December through March to deal with the icing ?
>>14946577
kill yourself fucking retard
>tfw mine is RUINED by the fixed c5r lights
>>14945017
okay that's the second best
How hard would it be to modify a shitbox to have them? It doesn't seem like it would be terribly hard to be honest.
>>14947004
Lol. Looks stupid
Change them
>>14947004
Them CCWs tho
>>14946612
at least I like it with the lights up, 3 winters now and no problems here
>>14947004
that and the rear offset.......
Technically the Cizeta-Moroder V16T is still in production, and has amazing popups.
Last mass produced car was the 2004 C5 Vette
>>14947004
your car was RUINED by you, you fucking dipshit
>>14950493
>still in production
Wat.
>>14944505
I feel like the c5 has aged better than the esprit
>>14950493
I assume "still in production" means "give us enough money and we'll make you one?"
I've actually seen a Cizeta in person, by the way. It didn't sound as cool as I hoped it would.
>>14947177
jesus christ lel
>>14945701
>c5
>sleekest vette ever produced
>>14950493
stuck in the 90s forever
http://www.cizetausa.com/cizeta/main.asp.htm
>>14953954
>>14950493
"The V16T is illegal to drive or to even own in the United States because it does not meet emissions and safety standards. One was seized by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on December 7, 2009."
>>14952322
>I feel like the c5 has aged better than the esprit
That's 'cause the Esprit has had the same basic design since the '70s. It's last design refresh was 1993 which itself was just a latest in a long line of facelifts of Giugiaro's original design.
The C5 debuted for the 1997 MY with ditinctly different styling from the C4.
>>14947004
What the fuck
>>14947004
Black it out, darken the headlights. Also those wheels are terrible.
>>14954199
why dont they shut it down goym
>>14946496
Wow, vette is so pigfat
>>14956420
>http://www.cizetausa.com/cizeta/main.asp.htm
smart
>>14956505
>Cizeta was visited by visitors
