Corvette Headlights

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did you like chevy taking away the corvetted flip-up headlights?

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when i saw that they were going to remove the flip-up headlights from the corvette i was rather irked what about you?

FYI: the reason that they were going to kill the headlights i heard was that they were "adversly affecting aerodynamics" but why are you driving that fast at night anyways?
 
Well I think they changed the headlights to keep up with the times. Flip up light used to be very popular during the 80's & 90's but now, how many cars do you actually see with pop up headlights that are brand new? Not many. Infact I can't think of any car with them from 2000-2007. They have gone out of fashion now.

It was also for other things too... but I'm more intrested in the design aspect. But I do like Corvettes now they have got rid of flip up's was never keen on them.
 
Yep i agree with speedster. Like look at the old Lambo's like the Countach, the're old and had flip up headlights. None of the new Lambos have it...
 
BayConRong
the other ones were the esprit and some ferrarri. both are still made.
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Yes, the Esprit and "some Ferrarri" did, but they don't make the Esprit anymore, and you can't get a new Ferrari with pop-up headlights.

As far as I know, there isn't a new car on sale in the UK today that has pop-up headlights.
 
The Espirt ended production in 2004. A new Espirt is expected near the end of 2009. No word on whether it will have pop-up headlights or not, but I'm guessing no. The only other cars of recent times to have pop-ups were the Honda NSX and Ferrari 456, but the NSX was redesigned without them in 2002 and the 456 ended production in 2003. As far as I'm aware, there are no cars on sale today with pop-up headlights.

Edit: Apparantly the Pontiac Trans Am did as well in 2003 (according to Joey in the Scavenger Hunt), although I know nadda about Pontiacs.

And I was mighty treed by daan.
 
I thought the pop up headlight was being put extinct due to the negative affect it would have to a pedestrian if they were struck by a car with pop ups.
 
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Edit: Apparantly the Pontiac Trans Am did as well in 2003 (according to Joey in the Scavenger Hunt), although I know nadda about Pontiacs.
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Were no 2003 T/As, 2002 was the final year for F-Bodies. (Camaro/Firebird)

Latest Cars with Pop-ups that I can think of are the Esprit and Z06, both ended in 04.
 
When they first changed it, I was fairly upset. Given that I'm pretty much the resident Corvette guy around here, its fairly understandable. This being said, after spending more and more time around the C6, I really began to understand the decision as that of a good one. Aerodynamically, it was a large bonus. Furthermore, it looks better. Granted, the older Corvettes will always be the best-looking (particularly the C2 and C3), the new C6 looks a lot better than the C5 with the headlights.
 
BayConRong
FYI: the reason that they were going to kill the headlights i heard was that they were "adversly affecting aerodynamics" but why are you driving that fast at night anyways?
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Well if you're racing at Le Mans approaching 200mph at night. The aerodynamics of a pop-up headlamp does make quite a difference. So I'm going to settle on the change as a case of trickle down racing tech.
 
Aerodynamics? Nah. It'll be a cost/weight issue. Pop-ups, by their very nature, are more complex than normal lights and will therefore weigh more, and cost more to make, than normal lights.
 
daan
Aerodynamics? Nah. It'll be a cost/weight issue. Pop-ups, by their very nature, are more complex than normal lights and will therefore weigh more, and cost more to make, than normal lights.
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And it's just one more thing that can break. And with very frustrating consequences.
 
hmmm, my brother seems to have made a thread that isn't totally stupid. that is a change. and i told him that pop-up headlights were aerodynamicly unstable. but i prefer cars with immobile headlights. it can make a car look meaner. which is what i like.
 
The Corvette is a bad example of design evolution, because the C6 looks more like a hack-job of the C5 then a whole new design (and the front end is still nasty, even after 4 years of attempting to like it). The Ferrari 360 Modena is a better example on how a car can look just as good with or without pop-ups, so long as you design it so it looks like it was done with normal headlights in mind.
 
daan
Aerodynamics? Nah. It'll be a cost/weight issue. Pop-ups, by their very nature, are more complex than normal lights and will therefore weigh more, and cost more to make, than normal lights.
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Ding ding ding. Winnah.

Also, back in the '70s, about 5-10 years after the '60s fad for pop-up or fixed-with flip-lid headlights, you'd be amazed at the number of those things running around with one eye open and the other closed. More complex !=! better if you like to maintain your cars yourself.
 
To be perfectly honest, I've never seen 60s and 70s cars winking at me (though I know it happens). I've always seen late 80s and early 90s cars doing so (Probes, mostly, but also Toyota Celicas and DSM cars).
 
I actually think the pop-up headlights give a car character. Some of my favorite cars had pop-ups.
 
Duke
Ding ding ding. Winnah.

Also, back in the '70s, about 5-10 years after the '60s fad for pop-up or fixed-with flip-lid headlights, you'd be amazed at the number of those things running around with one eye open and the other closed. More complex !=! better if you like to maintain your cars yourself.
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You would think that they would have been able to improve on that by now. :indiff: I hope that somehow they're able to have a Camaro RS with the moving headlamp covers.
 
Toronado
The Corvette is a bad example of design evolution, because the C6 looks more like a hack-job of the C5 then a whole new design...
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True, and that as I recall was Chevrolet's goal. They didn't want to completely re-do the Corvette to the point where it would be un-recognizable, but instead chose to evolve it just a bit to make it seem familiar, yet new. As I recall, Chevrolet said the car was 80% new out of the box, which turns out to be enough to me.

IMO, its a good-looking car. Sure, the C6 wasn't a huge evolution over the C5, which wasn't a huge evolution of the C4, but we've certainly come far enough from the C3 to feel good about ourselves.

My guess is that the C7 won't look too outrageous compared to the C6, despite the consistent rumors of a mid-engined 'Vette...
 
Toronado
To be perfectly honest, I've never seen 60s and 70s cars winking at me (though I know it happens). I've always seen late 80s and early 90s cars doing so (Probes, mostly, but also Toyota Celicas and DSM cars).
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well my dad had an 1984 celica supra and it's headlights worked fine although i thought they were moronic
 
YSSMAN
My guess is that the C7 won't look too outrageous compared to the C6, despite the consistent rumors of a mid-engined 'Vette...
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if they get rid of the rear stop lights {OO____OO} i'm going to get violent. unless they already have but the ones i've seen still have them.
 
Toronado
To be perfectly honest, I've never seen 60s and 70s cars winking at me (though I know it happens). I've always seen late 80s and early 90s cars doing so (Probes, mostly, but also Toyota Celicas and DSM cars).
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That's because by now, all the remaining '60s iron has been restored, whereas the '80s and '90s stuff is still on the downward spiral.
 
BayConRong
if they get rid of the rear stop lights {OO____OO} i'm going to get violent. unless they already have but the ones i've seen still have them.
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Don't worry, that will NEVER go away. Thats part of what makes a Corvette, a Corvette... Really, a Chevrolet a Chevrolet. Notice that a quite a few of their cars have quad-lamps out back (Corvette, Cobalt, Camaro, Impala, etc)
 

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