Pop-up headlights made classic sports cars like the Ferrari F40, Porsche 944, the Toyota MK1 Supra, and Mazda’s MX-5 Miata and RX-7 iconic in today’s car market.

Extinct from our modern cars, pop-up headlights remain one of the coolest exterior features ever conceived by the automotive industry. Colloquially known as pop-up headlights, these mechanisms ...

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.