Certified as the world's best-selling two-seater sports car by Guinness World ... But which pop-up headlights decade is better between the '80s and '90s? That's a matter of personal taste ...

Why don't cars have flip-up headlights anymore ... By the late '90s pop-ups were pretty much only for sports cars and exotics ...

In the late 1980s, the sports ... cars such as the early Volkswagen Golf and Passat models. Its body was penned by Ghia, another famous Italian automobile designer whose portfolio is made up ...

They became fashionable due to being futuristic, and by the 1970s and 1980s, pop-up headlights were mostly found on sports cars, including a few legendary Japanese ones.

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.

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 ...

Pop-up headlights were all the rage back in the ... prolific as it was influential in the world of small, lightweight sports cars, practically setting the template that Lotus would follow for ...

The tiny sports car also came with some of the most interesting pop-up headlights of the era. Instead of more conventional pop-up headlights that raised and lowered vertically, the featured GT ...

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 ...

Of course, the Bugatti wasn't the first car to pull off the horizontal square headlight look. The Alfa Romeo SZ came out decades ago, and sports ... of flipping up like a normal pop-up, they ...

I guess it’s time for another drop-dead gorgeous Mazda sports ... of the car is so natural. Also, here’s an Easter egg you might have missed: Those are almost definitely pop-up headlights.

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 ...