Headlight technology has come a long way since the heyday of the sealed beam, and upgrades are plentiful, but which is best?

Headlights have come long way since the crude lamps that lit the way for the first cars. Modern headlights use deceptively interesting tech to produce your car's beams, and the next ...

During America’s sealed-beam era, British and mainland European automakers offered a wider variety of headlight shapes and sizes in their home markets, often with superior lighting performance.

Federal regulations were expanded slightly in 1957 to allow automakers the option of using four smaller 5 3/4-inch sealed beam (PAR46) headlights.

I was motivated to finally install Oracle’s conversion headlights on my ’69 Charger when my trusty sealed beams finally fell dim.

It wasn't always this way. From the 1950s to the 1980s, vehicles used sealed-beam headlights, which didn't produce enough light to keep drivers safe on the road.

Learn more about how smart headlights came to be and how they work to determine if you want them in your next vehicle.

Though a sealed-beam headlight would actually work perfectly for this retrofit we highly recommend other manufacturers' H4-style lamps (Hella, Cibi, or Delta come to mind).

For much of the 20th century, basically every car on the road came with round headlights. That all changed in the mid-1980s when the universal sealed beam headlight went out of style and was ...

The widespread adoption of sealed beam headlights in the mid-'50s proved a massive technological leap, while the first halogen light, which would quickly become the next global standard, debuted ...

Anyone who has driven a car equipped with the old sealed-beam headlights from the 1980s will know that modern LED lighting technology is one of the greatest improvements of the modern automotive ...