Old Top Gear 1990 - French Yellow headlight law

Old Top Gear from 1990 - Chris Goffey takes a look at the law in France which requires cars to have yellow headlamps and compares them to white ones which are used in the UK. Taken from season 13 episode 9.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Old Top gear
• 1990
• BBC
• france
• headlamps
• paris motorshow 1990
• yellow
• headlights
• law
• season 13 episode 9
• bulb
• epic
• concept cars

[watanabehefuml]

hello sir do you support rangers football club in glasgow?

[celticmadliam]

@watanabehefuml

Can you guess? :P

[VividGraffiti]

are yellow light legal in the uk now or isit just one big loop-hole??

[metro2002]

I like yellow headlights, especially when riding in snow or fog it gives much more contrast.

[AdamAus85]

It's amazing how many stupid people have their headlights alligned incorrectly. Good to see a video on this subject, I have always wondered. It always was one thing that reminded you, 'this is France'. Have fond memories of older 80s/90s French flicks and peugeots with odd yellow headlights.

[F103Pro10S]

"if i want yellow lights, i should go to europe."

But not to germany, here its principally forbidden, just fog lights may bei "light yellow"...

On the Other hand, no one cars about, i´m drinving with yellow headlights for months... ;)

[jiwheeler]

after being stopped for the third time in a couple of months i just changed back to white bulbs. i loved the style of yellow headlights, and don't see any reason they should be banned here in massachusetts. the nokya bulbs i had are much easier to look at while providing plenty of light. i guess maybe i'll have to take the advice of the officer in cambridge who told me that "if i want yellow lights, i should go to europe."

[mrjost55]

Very cool episode, thanks for the upload

[nlpnt]

Well, it did outlast the sealed beam requirement by almost a decade.

[fluffycatsdad]

Modern car headlights are far too bright. Every time I drive at night, I have to look to the extreme left of my windscreen in order to avoid being blinded by oncoming traffic.