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equiped on stock or as an option?
The HIDs which come stock on the S2000 are extremely distracting. Part of that is the way the car bounces over every little bump, combined with the very sharp horizon. I imagine the Elise would have similar problems, perhaps even more exaggerated.scot said:I can almost guarantee you what you find "distracting" are "xenon" or "H4 HID" type lights. They are NOT HIDs. Just replacement bulbs that produce a poor color spectrum, that happens to center more towards 6500k. A true HID has no filiment, and produces fairly natural light centered at 6500K with a good CRI.
Nope, I'm talking about the flickering bright bluish headlights on Audis and to a lesser extent, BMWs.scot said:I can almost guarantee you what you find "distracting" are "xenon" or "H4 HID" type lights.
The older Miatas have flip-up headlights with fairly generic lamps. The '99-00 have integrated headlights with normal reflectors. The '01 and later Miatas have projector style headlights. There is a sharp cutoff of the beam above the centerline of the lights.That being said, I have driven in the miata, and I dont remember it having "projectors" it has a standard reflector system in the popup lamps.