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Taras wrote:Europe also had and has mandatory headlight washer systems, beacuse dirty lights produce more glare. Almost all HID equipped cars in US/Canada have them too, although here it is not mandatory. Every time you pull to wash your windshield, your headlamps get washed too (at much higher pressure).
RX8 has the headlight washer covered with a blanking plate for the same reasons you specified. Already designed, manufactured and integrated into Mazda's but not mandatory here (North America)...yet.
All these ("I hate the new lights....") were heard when Halogens were introduced in the 70's. Same with HID's. That's beacuse most people stare at the bloody things like a deer in the headlights. If you look at them, yes they will seem blinding.
So very true. Difficult for those to comprehend some of the differences between the different lighting systems. These are probably the same ones who buy the blue tinted bulbs in an effort to emulate the HID on Euro cars. I think I find myself very opinionated on these issues only because I've spent some time in Europe driving in places like France, Holland, Belguim, Norway, Germany and other places like Cyprus, Egypt, Israel and Jordan. In all of these places I've been able to realize the differences in quality and craftmanship of the various manufacturers from Europe and Japan without the incumberance and governmental obstacles the US and Canadian "safety regulatories" put into place. In other words...better quality cars..bar none. WRT lighting, the E-Spec has always amazed me. Always years ahead of us. Their funtionality, practicality and overall effectiveness is far superior to any lighting we are accustomed to. So of course there will be those who would look at a lighting system of this nature that can span up to six lanes, have a perfect cut-off point and scoff at it because perhaps in their mind if it doesn't illuminat a football field that it really isn't a good system. I mean lets face it, lighting of that caliber coming from a light unit whose lense is probably no more than about 3 inches in diameter is new stuff and will be a difficult realization to accept to those who are unable to think outside the box. I believe halogens as a stock lighting system on new cars will be a thing of the past within ten or 15 years or so, IMO.
Has anyone stopped to wonder why we (North America) never recieved the same front bumper as did the J-Spec, E-Spec and AU-Spec (integrated fog lights moulded in). Why would the manufacture not make them all the same unless one 1 ot 2 things came into play. 1 our front bumper is cheaper to produce because there is no fog light unit and or 2, the regulatory organizations in canada and the US deemed that it was not a requirement or necessity to have even if it was originally manufactured with them integrated. I know numerous people who were going to buy a E-Spec Mercedes, BMW, Volvo etc but were advised that because of certain regulatory requirements, they would have to make numerous modifications/equipment changes /replacements to meet NA codes. Because of all of those obstacles, they ended up buying a NA-Spec car that in many ways just seems to come up short. One of which was the lighting issues. IMO, a step backwards in our archaic approach to such matters. Change for those organizations, is a slow process, and unfortunately for us, we'll always be a step behind our non NA-Spec counterparts.