The last car with pop up headlights?

The last car with pop up headlights?

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Wednesday 5th November 2008
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We were having a discussion about this last night at the White Hart Classic Car meet, what was the last car to be fitted with pop up headlights?
The general consensus was possibly MX5, Elan or NSX, anything more recent?

Also have they just gone out of fashion as over complicated unnecessary contraptions or has legislation banned them?
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Iain

Chassis 33

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Wednesday 5th November 2008
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Reading around I don't think they are explicitly banned more its really difficult to meet things like pedestrian impact ratings with pop up lights.
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Iain

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Wednesday 5th November 2008
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Vario-Rob said:
Something tells me the DeTomaso Guara was the last car available with pop up lights, still technically available in 2005
Hmmm something tells me that the Lotus Esprit and C5 Corvette were both still availible in 2005 too, even if production ended in 2004 like the Guara, but never the less bonus points for obscurity wink
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Iain

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Wednesday 5th November 2008
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So what you're actually saying is that there is still, technically, but tenuously, in production. In that case...
shoutLadies and gentlemen we have have ourselves a winner, the DeTomaso Guara.
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Iain