In the case of cars with pop-up (hidden until needed) headlights, they are a thing of the past due to pedestrian safety. Still, some of those cars are still out there, and pop-up headlights are cool.

The pop-up headlights gave the car an unmistakable look ... and hidden headlights made the 944 an instant classic. When Honda (under its Acura brand in North America) released the NSX, it ...

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 ...

Sure, the media knew Honda was working on a sports car ... would have had everything it needed to be the coolest car with pop-up headlights, if not for a certain prancing horse.

The first series-production Honda with double-wishbone ... on to become the best-selling rotary car in history. All three generations feature pop-up headlights, and the one that resonates with ...

For the lights, doors on each side of the hood slide upwards and stows inside the car ... Honda, and helps cement the similarities between the 0 Saloon and retro Lamborghinis with their pop-up ...

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.

with a familiar shape and pop-up headlights once again, but the third-gen car did introduce some notable upgrades. The most memorable of these was a rear-wheel-steering system that Honda called 4WS.

And that’s the point, because, in most cases, there was an aerodynamic consideration when cars were designed with pop-up headlights. And that’s probably their greatest advantage; they can make a car’s ...