Headlamp mystery solved !!!!!
Me thinks that the new state of the art, LED headlamps, are going to be GMs 1st LED headlamp car application, with the new Camaro.....

Fbodfather quotes :

This will be a driver's car. It HAS to be. It's a CAMARO!

(and you haven't seen the coolest stuff yet!)


http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...801290366/1148

LEDs light up new Escalade
SUV is first to use longer-lasting, more stylish diode headlamps
Scott Burgess / The Detroit News
And Cadillac said, "Let there be light emitting diodes."
When the 2008 Cadillac Escalade Platinum arrives this summer it will include the first fully functioning LED headlamps in an SUV, General Motors Corp.'s luxury brand announced Monday.
The new headlamps, which feature both high- and low-beam projection, offer a long-lasting bright light that resembles daylight more than the bluish Xenon projection beams or yellowish hue in halogen lights. Hella KGaA Hueck & Company, the German-based supplier that developed the headlights with Cadillac, said the new headlamps also will last up to 20 times longer than traditional automotive lights.
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The Escalade's LED headlamps provide a more bejeweled appearance during the day and signature look at night. At the automaker's request, they echo the Cadillac's LED tall taillights, said Siegfried Hetz, Hella's product engineering specialist.
"We could have designed these to look any way we wanted, but working with Cadillac, they wanted a stacked appearance," he said.
Stephanie Brinley, an analyst with AutoPacific, an automotive marketing and consulting firm, said consumers should expect to see more vehicles with LED headlamps in the future.
"They offer a lot more freedom and designers will take advantage of that," she said. "Especially in vehicles that promote high style."
High-end vehicles such as the Cadillac Escalade Platinum make the perfect platform to debut a new technology, Brinley added.
"It's a way for manufacturers to offset the cost of something that's new and expensive," she said. "Elements like LED headlights can make a vehicle pop. It can increase the image factor and the wow factor."
Down the road, designs may offer even more "wow," Veitner said.
"Right now, the LED headlamp was designed inside the Escalade's casing," he said. "In the future, designers won't be limited by things like that because it will be part of the vehicle's original design." Recent technological advances allowed Hella to incorporate the LEDs into the headlamps, said Daniel Veitner, Hella's vice president of marketing.
"Red LEDs have been around for 20 or 30 years, but only recently have we been able to ramp up the brightness," he said. "By 2010, we should have LED lights that can burn brighter than (high-intensity discharge) lights today."
Hella uses free-form glass projection lenses to aim the intense light to different zones in front of the Escalade Platinum. The Cadillac headlamp uses five LEDs for the low beam and adds two more for high-beam projection. LEDs also run the parking lights. All are encased inside a single housing.
However, the new headlamps offer more than good vision for the driver at night, Hella and Cadillac officials said. They let everyone identify the vehicle.
"We're giving more attention to how a Cadillac looks at night," said Jim Taylor, Cadillac's general manager. "These headlamps will help give the Escalade Platinum a very distinctive appearance."

Mystery solved

 

That's a good find. Might not be "first" though.

 

Yeah, the Cadillac Escalade Platinum will be the first ever vehicle with full LED headlamps.
Low beams, high beams, marking light, and signal.... all LEDs.

 

I hope the new camaro has LED's...but that article does not mention the camaro even once.

W

 

whipwhipwhipwhip????? What?

 

Must be an LS1tech forum edit, like Zano

edit: or maybe the Zano thing was another board...

 

what kind of headlights do the C6's have?

 

HID's.

 

lol any time you say "M A R O" now, it looks like whipwhipwhipwhip. Good...I ******* hate when people call my car that.