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

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 ...