This archive's own Ferrari F40 carries the badge for a real reason: its Pininfarina design lineage traces directly back to the 308 GTB's own pop-up units a decade earlier. It is one of only two cars in this catalogue confirmed to carry them, alongside the Honda NSX (NA1). Every other published car was checked and excluded for a real reason, either built after the feature was regulated out of existence, or, like the McLaren F1, Porsche 959, Porsche 911 GT2 (993) and Pagani Zonda F, built with fixed headlight units from the start.

The feature did not disappear from neglect, either. In 1998, the European Union introduced a pedestrian-safety mandate that effectively ended pop-up headlights across the continent: raised into position, the units created sharp protruding edges directly in the path of a struck pedestrian, precisely the kind of hard, angular impact point the new rules were designed to eliminate.