Here's Why You Want Holes in Your Supercar's Lights - Popular Mechanics
The Detroit Auto Show (or takes a deep breath the North American International Auto Show, if you want to be a stickler about it) has come and gone. "It," of course, being a big ol' hole in the lamp. In the past year we've seen two performance cars that have use cleverly engineered lights. First, there was the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with its ram-air intake hidden in the front of its driver-side headlight. Read next: The 100 hottest cars of all time. Then last week came Ford's big surprise: the 2017 GT. Ford's new supercar has so much design goodness going on it's hard to focus on just one feature, but two of its most distinctive elements are the rear taillights. Hollowed out to allow hot air to exit from the intercoolers in the fenders, the lamps make the car look like it belongs on a flight deck instead of a race track. So there you have it. Two amazing cars, each with with a hole in their lights. But which car's parlor trick is, for a lack of a better word, the coolest. "I'm excited about the GT as a car, but I'm more excited about the Hellcat headlight as a light-with-a-hole-in-it. That's an old drag-racing trick that I never expected to see on a production car. "SRT Hellcat Challenger. Source: www.popularmechanics.com
