Pop-ups? ...revisited!

[Rob]

POP UPS!!!! BUT they must be like the C4 where they can style the light to something good looking and make them aerodynamic unlike the C5's

Actually, I'm not sure the styling of the pop-up headlights on the C4 would be a good thing to use for the C6. While it looked very cool, I experienced something this weekend on my Vette that for whatever reason, I had not experienced before.

My ZR-1 is Canadian and equipped with Daytime Running Lights. There is a sensor right above the DIC that detects the amount of visible light. When that amount dips below a certain threshold, it automatically triggers the headlights to pop up.

So, yesterday morning at dawn, when the light was still low in the sky and I was flying down I-81 towards the Carlisle fairgrounds, I had the windows in the car down and the headlights popped up. All of a sudden, I heard a distinct whistle sound which leads me to believe that even though they look cool, they don't do much for aerodynamics and noise quality levels.

 

[corvettecrazy]

i understand...BUT you could make them sleek they need to get rid of the big ugly square light and make something sleek. maybe a pop up like the C4 but one that only goes about 3-4 inches above the front and is sloped to be very aerodynamical with powerful lights.

if you cruised down like that in a C5 it would be like having air brakes on.

 

[FX GS]

Dave Hill confirmed at Carlisle this weekend, that the C6 would have non pop-ups.

 

[ACR Z06]

I wish they can make fixed headlights with a retractable cover so the Vette still has it standout from the rest look. It would still have the fixed lights and they will be easier to fix and less weight but just have a cover to cover them when they arent used so it still has that "vette look" to the car.

 

[Patrick]

I have always loved the pop-ups. When I was a kid, the pop-ups were the thing about the C3 (and later, the C4) that was cool to watch when someone fired up their vette, before they took off.

That said, now that I have a C4, I have to say that a persistent worry about how long it's going to be before the motor on one of the pop-ups goes bad, or the gears get jammed and the headlight either won't open or close. So I guess I'm not opposed to the fixed headlights, if the overall front end appearance still looks agressive.

 

[Hib Halverson]

Personally, I don't give a s__t what the headlights do as long as they provide good light for fast driving, something a Corvette has never done. In the old days (C2/3 era) you could just bolt in some off-road, quartz-halogens or, if you were really cheap, some used aircraft landing lights, but w. C4 and C5, getting good lights was a little more difficult.

We need bright and long-ranged so when you're running 140mph on a two-lane back road at night, you're not going to overdirve the lights.

 

[vetteZ06dream]

How do you feel about the aftermarket non-popup kits that are on the market? Has anyone actually seen them installed on any vehicles and if so what do you think?

idk if the non-pop ups ive seen were the aftermarket kit ur talking about, but i have seen non-popups on vettes which stock come w/ popups. and personally, i think they just dont have the same look. this "look" is what i know as the "real corvette look" bc im only 16, i grew up around C4's and C5's, so the classic C1's w/ the exposed headlights just arent the real look to me. so in my opinion i would defiantly keep the headlights as popups, or as was mentioned earlier, some other form of hiding them until needed. now, im not saying these exposed headlights ive seen made the car look bad, some actually look pretty good, but nothing compared to the popups. but i agree that if the exposed headlights r done right, then they could become the "real look" again for the 1st time since the 60's.

 

[44 Mag]

when you're running 140mph on a two-lane back road at night

:J :eek Glad we're on opposite coasts!

 

[vettedoc]

I vote for the light cluster. Less to fix in the future! Pop ups are great for the older genertions. It gives them character

 

[81kix]

I vote for the light cluster. Less to fix in the future! Pop ups are great for the older genertions. It gives them character

I feel the same.

 

[atmmac]

I like the popups too just not when they are up! I do not really care for the look of my headlights when they are up. The C4 headlights up did look cool though. The pop up lights are a corvette trademark!

 

[LongTimer]

Dateline Detroit, MI. January 30, 2004

This morning the VP of Marketing for General Motors announced the corporation's response to the growing number of Corvette owners who are becoming comatose at the replacement of the popular popup headlights with new modern, light weight, higher visibility fixed headlight system in the sixth generation of the Corvette. Although the design of the new car has opened to rave reviews, a few cultists are having severe emotional problems dealing with the change.

"We will be opening Psychiatric clinics in all major cities to provide the neccessary help those who are suffering from this 'Afraidusofprogressus' syndrome, as the condition has been named by the Center for Disease Control (Alanta, GA.)," says the VP. He went on to say that treatments will include shock by forcing the patients to repeatedly veiw pictures of some of the ugliest cars ever produced that happen to have popup headlights. Many of these are small Japanese cars produced in the 1980's and early 1990's. He also committed, "We will be providing the finest help available to bring these sad, affected people back into 2004."

Though no one has yet died from this debilitating condition, several have been confined to their homes where they sit in the floor all day long and repeatedly turn the crank on Jack-In-the-Box toys and giggle when the flap opens and clown pops up.

 

[FX GS]

 

[ROJO99]

I have the belief that there are two necessary things for a sports car. One a respectable power plant and Two hideaway head lamps...