Published on 12:00 AM, October 17, 2018
Coolest taillights - the best reds you'll ever see on a car
Ferrari Testarossa - very cool 80's cocaine fuelled slab sided styling that has aged well. Rear lights were simple affairs hidden behind a vertical grill.
Taillights are crucial to cool cars. After all, it's the last thing other people see as you drive off from a cloud of dust/smoke/tears/whatever it is you prefer driving away from. Here's our roundup of the best taillights we've ever seen. We might have missed a few, so do us a favour by letting us know via our Facebook page.
All new Bugatti Divo has craziness in its veins, which comes out in its whacky taillights.
Nissan Skyline R34 - big and small lights shouldn't work this well but it is one of the most iconic JDM styling cues.
53 Cadillac Eldorado featured a gas tank cap hidden behind a swivelling tail light. Why? Who knows.
New Ford GT has floaty, hollow taillights that should’ve had the exhausts exit from inside them. Too whacky? Corr!
Ford Lotus Cortina had nuclear tails. Sign of the Cold War era times?
4th gen Supra defined overkill. Hollow carpets for weight reduction. Four lenses per tail light when everybody did, at most, two. And it worked.
Think of the Lamborghini Aventador the next time you see these tails on a Toyota GT86 in Dhaka.
1968 Dodge Charger - featuring the famed 426 Hemi. Hidden heads and very cool round tail lights. The only time they tried it.
Mercury Cougar - hidden headlights behind a razor blade grill and same treatment to the rear.
Aston DB11 tails so sleek, you can barely see them. Yikes. What’s the point you ask? Coolth.
Jag F-Type started the sleek, modern trend. Who says Jaguars need to be old timey and stumpy?
Mazda Cosmo tails should look awkward but don’t. Genius idea - bumper as a splitter.
McLaren P1 redefined the hypercar, and how thin taillights could be. Made famous by weird haired Canadian hip hop artists.
Ford Thunderbird - best representation of the fighter jet crazy 60's. Those are turbines, we swear.
Ferrari Daytona tails aren’t really special on their own. But this Riviera cruiser’s rear design is plum.
1963 Chevrolet Corvette. Vettes are known for their four round tail lights. None more iconic than the split window Sting Ray.
Toyota Altezza - Responsible for starting the trend of clear aftermarket lights with round lenses.
1959 Cadillac Eldorado defined excess in chrome and super-sizing. And it still looked cool especially with those bullet shaped twin tail lights.
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