Post by Porsche AG

They are iconic design features of the transaxle models: the pop-up headlights. How did the new design come about? At that time, transaxle models offered two different types of pop-up headlights. The 928 featured the forward-rotating system, while the four-cylinder models – the 924 launched in 1976 and the 944 in 1981 – were fitted with pop-up headlights that rotate backward when opening, like those of the 914 mid-engine sports car introduced in 1969. As the final stage of evolution of the transaxle models, the 968 reintroduced the design and function of the 928 headlight housings in 1991. Due to its lenses, which are also visible when the headlights are closed, the 928 is clearly different at first glance from the 924 and 944, whose headlight housings visually melt with the hood when closed, as the covers are painted in the same color as the car. The choice of design is primarily an aesthetic one. But regardless of the technology used at the front of the car, pop-up headlights began shaping the design of Porsche’s transaxle models in the mid-1970s. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d46uUQN2