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 ...

However, I have always romanticized the era of pop-up headlights. It gave us some legendary cars that still wow enthusiasts today and, crucially, made cars look uber cool. Pop-up headlights were ...

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.

Oh, and on the right make and model, cars with flip-up headlights could look super-cool. Not all cars, however, as some just never pulled it off style-wise. Disadvantages? Plenty. For a start, a ...

Sadly, pop-up headlights aren't a modern feature. What we gained in practicality going for a modern bluff front end we lost in retro cool. Now, I appreciate the automotive industry's move to a ...

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 ...