In love with twin headlights
01/02/2015
Vehicle manufacturers who wanted to demonstrate sportiness from the 1950s onwards fitted twin headlights to their production cars. The Opel Manta had them, as did the fast Ford Capri versions. They gave the Ferrari 330 GT an unconventional front end and the Corvette C1 more overtaking prestige. The Fiat 1500 had them, as did the Audi 80. And they also replaced the rectangular light units on the VW K70.
The cars with the Cuore Sportivo were particularly popular with twin headlights. And they also made the Alfa Romeo Alfasud sportier and the Alfasud Sprint anyway, as well as its competitor from the same designer pen, the VW Scirocco.
Sporty drivers did not let themselves be talked out of them, no matter how many advantages large rectangular headlights had on paper.
Incidentally, there were some brands that consistently dispensed with the twin lamps at the front, Porsche for example. They were probably sporty enough without them.
Until modern times, however, the twin headlights characterized the front of some car brands, but xenon, LED and now laser light make the former sports attributes unnecessary, a twin headlight daytime running light a pure design feature. We will soon only be able to dream of "real" twin headlights in separate housings and with their own bulbs, where you could even change a bulb at home.
