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Old 08-11-2014, 07:50 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by ayilar View Post
I can't speak for the OP, but in my case I have two MB to compare the headlights to: my (now sold) 2005 C230k SC's halogens and my C350's bixenons. There is no comparison. The Coupe's were extremely good for halogens IMHO, consistent with with their being rated highly in (if memory serves) AutoCar and in a French car magazine I read at the time. The 2008 C350's are so good that I love driving at night: it's good with normal beams but truly like daylight if I can turn the high beams on: they are _that_ good. The BRZ's xenons pale (no pun intended) in comparison. Love my car but not its headlights.
You are right a lot of modern HIDs and even LED and halogen headlights on low end cars are complete bullshit. When I drove a Gen 3 Integra in the 90's the halogen projectors were unbelievably good, puts a lot of cars these days to shame.

The Hella HID projectors and Hella halogen projector fogs combo on my old Mk5 Golf GTI were pretty good also. I won't even mention the garbage fog lights on the twins; PSX24W like are you fucking kidding me?
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