The Dodge Charger Daytona remains one of the wildest-looking road-going sports cars ever, with a huge rear wing and a keen front "nose cone" end with pop-up headlights. However, this was not Dodge ...

Moving with the front wheels, the center lamp would supposed to light up around corners. The Czech maker Tatra, used third headlights too. But those center lights were also vulnerable to damage.

Explore the impact of the US law on American car design from 1940 to 1983, and how it influenced the look of vehicles for ...

So much of the front of this racing legend is dedicated to the headlight clusters, and they're dramatic, almost demonic, and 100-percent badass. Submitted by: ejp ...

That car, also front-wheel drive, had been a design icon back in the '30s with its hidden headlights, long hood, and flowing fastback lines.

The front-engine V-12 is, of course, Ferrari’s most famous vehicle format. Ferrari’s first road cars in 1947 were front-engine V-12s, though their engines displaced a mere 1.5 liters.

So are headlights actually getting brighter? The short answer is no—although there was a tweak to headlight regulations in 2008—but multiple factors can cause them to seem brighter.