At 01:22 AM 12/11/2008, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>Odd... all of the American cars I've looked closely at here (including
>80s Chryslers) had halogens...

Halogens will give just as crappy light as anything else if you put
them in a DOT-spec headlamp...the DOT lights are the way they are
because the DOT wants them that way, not because they couldn't do any
better technically.  Aside from that, US RHD cars would have had
their headlights replaced for LHD New Zealand use, no?

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