travisnd

Excellent point... instead of being flung up and over the car, now the deer will be collected in the center and cushioned by your hood so it can have a better chance of being alive when it crashes through your windshield and then proceeds to kick you to death... hooves are sharp. But what would silly nanny-state European legislators know about deer?

chaase

Interesting..The S-class is the only one showing a hood ornament.

Guibo

It's possible the S-Class's hood ornament has a spring-loaded mechanism, designed to fall against the force of a falling body. Bentley has it, and has experienced a recall as the mechanism can corrode and fail to work as designed.
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/...hood-ornament/

Toque

I love my C5 Z06 Pop up lights !
Its a great "clean" look in the day time.
I could care less about drag coefficients when they are up.
I'm not a race car driver.

rcallen484

I thought you were going to say something about tunnel vision. Talk about FANGS.........

QCVette

I prefer non popup headlights, but they did save me in my '94.

I hit a deer at about 65 mph. It was night and when the deer came over the front he hit the popups and they launched him over the roof. If it were not for the popups he would have come right through the windshield (although dead or alive wouldn't have mattered much).

rcallen484

Wait.... IDEA
A section of the hood with something like an air bag underneath it that explosively tilts up to launch the deer into the next county in such a situation.

$$$frumnuttin'

This thread is rapidly descending into madness, but I like it!... and my C5 pop-ups.

alxltd1

Headlights?????? What headlights? And who the heck drives their ‘Vette at night anyway!?

69L79

Imho, a hood/power bulge is a good thing. One of the better styling features of the C7.

ANTIVNOM

2014 E class does as well (non sport models).

I really don't get what the big deal would be with having it. Mine is spring loaded on my E class and gives way easily if you apply much pressure to it. Now the big Flying Lady on a Rolls...that looks like a problem as big as it is.

rcallen484

I think I saw on a Rolls or Bentley, on some model, where the hood ornament lowers out of sight, with a cover, to prevent theft when car is off.

rdwiv

The stockers aren't the best for lighting and the gears need replacing...BUT....I LOVE the look when they are down and there's always the upgraded aftermarket projector HIDs. Night driving with the top down is awesome....

FAUEE

Easiest way to get around this would be to just not sell the car in Europe. It's not like it is a massive market for the Corvette, and if their laws are detracting from the US car, then the decision to sell it there is harming their important market.

Ultimately though, nobody will decide to not buy it because of this sort of a change, so it's rather a moot point. It's only going to get worse and people are still going to buy them and complain about it, so GM is going to not give a rat's *** about it. A paying customer with quibbles about the design is still a paying customer.

wolf10851

couldn't agree more Toque! and as for GM saying that they couldn't fit HID lights in the popups then what are these? http://www.corvettemods.com/Corvette...it_p_5530.html

Toque

Night time is my favorite time to go cruising !

Exactly !!!

Yea its easy to just pop in HID's into the stock housings. That's not really the right way to do it though. The stock housings are not designed for a light as bright as the HID bulb.

I got a ACA HID projector housing, then removed the original projector and retrofitted a Morimito FXR Bi-Xenon projector in there instead.

High and Low beam from the same 55W HID bulb. Operates exactly like it was factory installed.

My lighting is way better than a C6, and in the day time my lights are hidden for a "clean" look.

Toque

jr3

Some of these govt. rules are screwing up the looks of some cars.

Like some of the front ends on the newer mercedes and bmw's have that "chopped off nose" look...

I just hope they dont end up letting other countries screw up the look of american cars.

jimmyb

Man, you gotta love this place....a pop up headlight discussion. Whatever the reason, pop ups were doomed by the market, if nothing else. The C5 came out in 1997, I cannot think of ANY cars that had pop ups at that point, if there were any, they were gone LONG before the C5 breathed it's last in 2004. Plenty of cars that HAD pop ups originally, changed over (during the same generation) to fixed lamps (Acura NSX, Lamborghini Diablo, Dodge Stealth/Mitubishi 3000 just to name a few examples) Pop ups went out of fashion, period. We can talk about Euro regs/race team/reliability/whatever, what competion was doing had just as much (or more) effect.

Jimmy

wolf10851

my only point with that link is that it IS possible to put the HIDs into a pop up light as some here have said that Chevy couldn't have done it because there isn't room and still have the lights be pop ups
honestly I don't care if they were doomed as you say by the market all I can say is that I think the car looks cleaner without the headlights being exposed. Back in the late 70's and early 80's the "market" said they wanted good mileage and no horsepower (4 cyl Camero, 180 hp Corvette) Glad we didn't listen to the market and keep those god awful underpowered cars

rcallen484

Let's name this one Guibotch, just the way it sits