Pop-up headlights were developed as a way to differentiate ... but in the end, the JDM car that perfected the supercar formula won. When the NSX came out, it came out of nowhere.

Plenty of Japanese cars embraced pop-up lights, too. For a while there, heaps of JDM cars had them, and makers like Mazda and Toyota were very keen on the concept. Nissan was in on the act at the same ...

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 ...

Ok, hear me out: Pop-up headlights. I refer to that throwback relic of a time when cars were so pointy, the only way you could engineer a headlight to point forward was to mount it on a swivel.

Most importantly, perhaps, is the fact that it's trying to bring back pop-up headlights ... Westbrook eventually began writing about new cars in college after starting an obsessive action movie ...

BONUS: Mazda Miata a.k.a. Mazda MX-5 Those pop-up headlights make it one of the most recognizable JDM cars. Introduced in 1989, the Mazda Miata quickly won hearts as a lightweight, two-door ...