The Oldsmobile Toronado was notable for a whole raft of reasons, not least the fact that it packed a 385bhp V8, yet the power went to the– in an age when all of its rivals were resolutely rear-wheel drive. The 7.0-litre V8 also produced 475lb ft of torque, transmitted through the wheels that also had to do the steering. The handling was predictably terrible but at least the front-end design was neat with those concealed headlights.
This was the longest-lived of all the Corvette generations and even now it looks impossibly dramatic, mainly because of that incredible V-shaped nose with its pronounced wing tops and hidden headlights. The Corvette C3 came with no fewer thanFerrari isn't often early to the party, but when it came to pop-up headlights it created an all-time great with the Daytona and would go on to adopt them for all of its cars until the arrival of the 550M in 1996.
Classics
Yes I do
Plus the greatest of them all....F40 😍
Let’s see some pop ups on SUV’s As they are so aerodynamic 😂
Porsche 928 a greate car? No sir, actually one of the ugliest pop-up head lights to exist.
Loved em Health and safety loons were the end of them. The F355 the last great Ferrari to have them sadly.
what was the point of them?
I miss them🥲🤧
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