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Originally Posted by fourthpoliceman
Those hybrid taillamps have massive reverse lights! Does anyone know if it's alot brighter than the reverse lamps of the CE/LE/SE/XLE models?
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OK, my thoughts. No actual knowledge, but I won't let that stop me.
The hybrid reverse lights are LED's, and are so outrageously big (c'mon, who really wants rear lights where the REVERSE lights are the biggest element?!??) because it takes a whole bunch of LED lights to create enough output to actually "light up something" enough to see where you're going. This is why we don't have LED headlights (yet). Yeah, I know, they're working on it.
While, yes, I think LED lights are as cool as anyone does, I'm just
NOT a fan of these "several rows of points of light" like these and an awful lot of other taillights. Especially here in the Hybrid, where you have that gosh-awful big reverse element, and then just three wimpy little rows of three lights -- bleah. And what I really really really really really
REALLY don't like is having just the tails being LED's, and then the turn signals are regular incandescent bulbs. Like the Hybrid has.
So, chalk me up as NO fan of the Hybrid taillights.
I'm also similarly negative on "anything Altezza" -- barfo city!!!
Thus, I hate what Mazda is doing, I hate what Nissan is doing, and so on. And.... Well, gosh, I just really like the good, old, normal 2007 Camry taillights. No BS crap like Honda is doing so much nowadays with red turn signals. Another bleah!! Nope, the Camry has good old amber turn signals, which I think are just several hundred million times more noticeable than all-red taillights with red turn signals. And, the amber turn signals are "high and on the outside," right where they should be.
And then.... Absolutely nothing Altezza at all about the Camry taillights -- the actual tailights glow in the very shape they are -- no "big red area with some little section that lights up" -- it's that shape, and it all lights up. Ahhhhh, perfect.
Well done, Toyota! I like 'em!!
