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Spot Lights

02.4.2009 | 1:07 am | Car Accessories, Uncategorized

Among the more useful – and also impressive – adornments you can give to your beloved car are spot lights. They not only look great – if chosen properly – but serve a very important purpose, too, particularly if your car is not one of the most up to date models with fantastic headlights.

Unlike many adornments a set of spotlights rarely looks anything other than great, although modern hatchbacks do not lend themselves to the look as well as might have been. In terms of classic cars one can’t go wrong, for there is nothing better on an MGB than a set of big spots sitting on the top of the chrome bumpers.

Spot lights play to the drivers desire to do what Sebastien Loeb does for a living, sliding a Citroen around the forests of the world at high speed without a moments regard for safety or road sense. This is not to say that everyone should fit spots and go drifting, just that the look can be achieved with relative ease.

It can be done very well, too, for many manufacturers offer spot lights with custom made fittings for particular models. This ads to the gravitas of having a car that looks like a World Rally contender, and makes you model stand out from the crowd.

It is an interesting statistic that the vast majority of after-market fitted spotlights are never used; that is never used as in never switched on. We know, however, that they are used simply by being there. Spotlights are macho and aggressive, but safety conscious and sensible at the same time – a difficult combination achieved very rarely indeed.

There are endless suppliers of spotlights, from the high street store to the specialist outlets, and they are an integral part of the customising process. Whoever saw, for example, a Mark I Escort look good without a stonking great set of spotlights on the grill, and what about those Porsche 911 ones that seem to emerge from the bonnet?

Giving something as simple as a set of auxiliary lights a sexy and stylish look may have seemed like a losing bet, but who can ever forget the Lancia Stratos, as sexy a car as there ever was, made sexier still by the row of bright spotlights sprouting from its shark-like prow?

That is what spot lights are about – style and function, all in one. Whether you drive a hot hatch or a luxury barge there is bound to be a set that looks great for you.

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