Reliably generating light with the limited resources at a car’s disposal was a problem for early automotive engineers. Tungsten filaments, similar to the kind found in household incandescent light ...

When driving off-road at night or even down rural roads, it becomes very apparent that the factory headlights and fog lights leave a lot to be desired, even with the high beams on. In the past, ...

The headlight aisle at your local auto parts store is daunting, full stop. It seems every time we return it’s expanded with new colors, new names, new technologies, gold, platinum, vibranium, etc., ...

Our Fox Mustang is a worn-out 30-year-old magazine project car. It needs obvious upgrades like paint and body, plus less tangible items like a total upgrade of all lighting; both interior and exterior ...

Some of Jeep’s headlights leave a lot to be desired – namely light output. In particular, the halogen lamps on the Wrangler and Cherokee have been called out by the IIHS as among the worst on the ...

The “Bikemaster” brand HID headlight kit is available in several different bulb types. We installed the H4 kit on the Suzuki DR650 (blog) but the steps are the same for every bike. The HID bulb posed ...

Are your classic Corvette’s headlights so dim that fireflies try to mate with them? If you have driven late-model luxury cars at night, particularly European or Japanese models, you may have headlight ...

Thanks to the mass-adoption of LED and HID headlights on passenger cars, the roads at night have become an ever-brighter and paradoxically increasingly dangerous world. Whether it's people who leave ...

Check the sales brochure of a high-end new car and chances are you’ll find that the headlights are HID units. But let’s start at the start: What are HID headlights? HID actually stands for High ...