I suppose its a sad day when the addition of LED’s to golfs become newsworthy, but news on the automotive front have been a bit dull this week.
Anyway, for those who care the new Golf R is going to have LED taillights like the ones pictured above offered as standard and the GTI and GTD will have it offered as a R3500 option. Why can’t they just include it in the price and add it anyway? Well they’ll make more money this way is the obvious answer.
The benefits of using LED’s are they last longer and illuminate quicker – 0.2 seconds quicker than conventional bulbs in fact.
All this means that people will see you hitting the brakes a fifth of a second quicker, shaving a full 5 meters off the braking distance from 100km/h.
Plus they look cool.
Yeah LEDs looks very very cool, and most new cars now have it, because they can make deigns out of the LED with different colors if they want, it looks good anyway but you have pay extra money out of it.
December 12, 2009 5:21 am
ALvinG
I do care…! the car will have definitely look way better! Love the design concept for the lights, and lets face it, the G6 does look a bit dull…
December 10, 2009 1:51 pmit could do with a bit of flash and dazzle