As a child of the 1980s who came of age in the early '90s, pop-up headlights are, in my mind, the peak of automotive cool. All the raddest, most interesting cars of my childhood — Lamborghinis, ...

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.

Ok, hear me out: Pop-up headlights. I refer to that throwback relic of a time when cars were so pointy, the only way you could engineer a headlight to point forward was to mount it on a swivel.

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 ...

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. See All 11 ...

It hardly seemed to matter. Pop-up headlights were considered, at various peaks from the ’60s to the ’90s, the height of cool. Safety legislation and the emergence of visible headlight ...

were prone to failure. Cars with busted pop-ups were often left with a winky face, one headlight up and one down, or had their pop-ups permanently fixed in the open position. Some, like the ...