Pop Up Lights

[Bernard80]

Please help me car nerds lovely people..

What is the youngest car I can buy that has pop up lights?

All I got so far is a Lotus Elan?

[SpunkyMonkey]

BMW 8 series ended production in 1999

[cpas]

MX5

[jamiebae]

I have a '98 R plate MX-5 with pop up lights but I think the 8'er will take this one.

[SpunkyMonkey]

Wow - you could still buy one of these new in 2004:

[Hitch78]

Honda NSX pop ups phased out in 2002

[Hitch78]

Beaten by a Lotus....how about the last gen Corvette? Must be very late 04 or 05 for them.

[Bernard80]

So
BMW 8 - 99
MX5 - 98
Elan - 99?
MK2 MR2 - 99?
Lotus Esprit - 2004
Honda NSX - 2002
Ford Probe - 97

The lotus definitly winning. And with a V8 to! Bonus.

[Bowler]

I have a C5 Corvette, (Euro Model - albeit LHD) that has pop-ups. Production on these ceased in '04, to be replaced by the (current) C6 with "normal" lights and ending a long line of Vettes with pop-ups, going back 42 years (a record?)

HTH

[Baron Von Alders]

Ferrari 456 up until 2004.

& a V12

[anonymous-user]

Bernard80 said:

Lotus Esprit - 2004
The lotus definitly winning. And with a V8 to! Bonus.

Not so fast, Mr Bond!

C5 Corvette - 2004. And with a V8 too! Bonus.

Being something of a fan of pop-up headlamps, and having owned both Esprit and Corvette, I am naturally mourning their disappearance.

[Bernard80]

Bowler said:

I have a C5 Corvette, (Euro Model - albeit LHD) that has pop-ups. Production on these ceased in '04, to be replaced by the (current) C6 with "normal" lights and ending a long line of Vettes with pop-ups, going back 42 years (a record?)

HTH

I think I was born in the wrong era.

[Bernard80]

5 USA said:

Bernard80 said:

Lotus Esprit - 2004
The lotus definitly winning. And with a V8 to! Bonus.

Not so fast, Mr Bond!

C5 Corvette - 2004. And with a V8 too! Bonus.

Being something of a fan of pop-up headlamps, and having owned both Esprit and Corvette, I am naturally mourning their disappearance.

Yep, it is a joint 2nd place now between these two.

The Ferrari 456 is now winning

[zeppelin101]

5 USA said:

Being something of a fan of pop-up headlamps, and having owned both Esprit and Corvette, I am naturally mourning their disappearance.

I'm split on the subject. While it is immensely cool, and makes me grin every time flashing somebody out of a junction, both my old MR2 and current S13 have crap headlights. Regardless of what bulbs you put in them or anything, visibility on a country road would be better with a candle mounted to the front bumper.

Cool, apparently not very functional!

[300bhp/ton]

Suspect there's a kit car somewhere with pop up headlights...

[Bernard80]

zeppelin101 said:

5 USA said:

Being something of a fan of pop-up headlamps, and having owned both Esprit and Corvette, I am naturally mourning their disappearance.

I'm split on the subject. While it is immensely cool, and makes me grin every time flashing somebody out of a junction, both my old MR2 and current S13 have crap headlights. Regardless of what bulbs you put in them or anything, visibility on a country road would be better with a candle mounted to the front bumper.

Cool, apparently not very functional!

You think I bought a MK1 MR2 for functional reasons? They are just cool, that is all that matters.

If only I could get them to operate independently from each other so I could wink at people on the zebra crossing.

[Bowler]

Bernard80 said:

Bowler said:

I have a C5 Corvette, (Euro Model - albeit LHD) that has pop-ups. Production on these ceased in '04, to be replaced by the (current) C6 with "normal" lights and ending a long line of Vettes with pop-ups, going back 42 years (a record?)

HTH

I think I was born in the wrong era.

Not if you drove one though, the lights are ste.....

[LuS1fer]

Not as late as the Vette but the Trans Am had PUL up to 2002

Edited by LuS1fer on Tuesday 12th October 21:51

[Bernard80]

Bowler said:

Bernard80 said:

Bowler said:

I have a C5 Corvette, (Euro Model - albeit LHD) that has pop-ups. Production on these ceased in '04, to be replaced by the (current) C6 with "normal" lights and ending a long line of Vettes with pop-ups, going back 42 years (a record?)

HTH

I think I was born in the wrong era.

Not if you drove one though, the lights are ste.....

Meh. I live in the city, it isn't that dark.

Loving the Trans Am, that is joint 2nd place now too.

[slipstream 1985]

zeppelin101 said:

5 USA said:

Being something of a fan of pop-up headlamps, and having owned both Esprit and Corvette, I am naturally mourning their disappearance.

I'm split on the subject. While it is immensely cool, and makes me grin every time flashing somebody out of a junction, both my old MR2 and current S13 have crap headlights. Regardless of what bulbs you put in them or anything, visibility on a country road would be better with a candle mounted to the front bumper.

Cool, apparently not very functional!

fashion over function