Pop-up headlights are form of hidden headlamps that fold up out of a car’s front end. They have achieved cult status as an ...

were prone to failure. Cars with busted pop-ups were often left with a winky face, one headlight up and one down, or had ...

They allow the car's front end to be as characterful and aerodynamic as the designers wanted, and making headlights go up and down satisfies everyone's inner child. Despite the pop-up headlight's ...

and drop down through 90 degrees to point at the road when they are. QOTD: What Was The Best-Looking Car With Pop-Up Headlights Ever Made? Well, that’s how it’s supposed to work, anyway.

Thanks to LEDs, today's car headlights provide excellent night visibility while allowing for ever-sleeker designs. However, I have always romanticized the era of pop-up headlights. It gave us some ...

Our favourite pop-up headlight car? Let’s hear it for the Opel GT, built between 1968 and 1973 and sold mainly in Europe. This looked like a scaled-down C3 Corvette, so the covered headlights looked ...

You’re going to go down the simple route. From a reliability standpoint, it was a bit of a nightmare. Most electric pop-up headlights ran on a servo that pushed them up and out of the bodywork ...

The simple yet innovative hidden headlight system wasn't actually of the typical pop-up variety since the covers actually popped down when the driver hit the light switch, revealing a pair of ...

Pop-up headlights were all the rage back in the age of the aerodynamic 1980s wedge-shape design. They offered vehicles a sleek, cohesive hood line and an undeniable "cool-factor" when the sun set ...

It’s a stock visual in any 1980s movie montage: A character jumps into a cool sports car, revs the engine, and activates the pop-up headlights. Violating the speed limit inevitably follows.

Most importantly, perhaps, is the fact that it's trying to bring back pop-up headlights, and it looks very good doing so. Here's what we know about this 2026-destined project so far. Given the ...