Audi R8 Full-LED Headlamp Pricing Announced

Awesome.

wats the difference between these light and the lights on the normal R8?

The sickeningly unjustifiable price.... They can keep it..

the new led`s are much brighter than the xenon headlights

this is state of the art technology so the price is normal for such

A joe_limon you are wrong on this one, diodes are much older. From Wikipedia "Although the crystal diode was popularized before the thermionic diode, thermionic and solid state diodes were developed in parallel. The principle of operation of thermionic diodes was discovered by Frederick Guthrie in 1873.[1] The principle of operation of crystal diodes was discovered in 1874 by the German scientist, Karl Ferdinand Braun.[2] Thermionic diode principles were rediscovered by Thomas Edison on February 13, 1880 and he was awarded a patent in 1883 (U.S. Patent 307,031 ), but developed the idea no further. Braun patented the crystal rectifier in 1899 [1]. Braun's discovery was further developed by Jagdish Chandra Bose into a useful device for radio detection. The first radio receiver using a crystal diode was built around 1900 by Greenleaf Whittier Pickard. The first thermionic diode was patented in Britain by John Ambrose Fleming (scientific adviser to the Marconi Company and former Edison employee[2]) on November 16, 1904 (U.S. Patent 803,684 in November 1905). Pickard received a patent for a silicon crystal detector on November 20, 1906 [3] (U.S. Patent 836,531 ). At the time of their invention, such devices were known as rectifiers. In 1919, William Henry Eccles coined the term diode from Greek roots; di means "two", and ode (from odos) means "path"."

I agree. I guess I missed understood you.

What's another 3590eu on a 120,000eu car? If i had enough $ to buy the R8 i would fork out the extra cash for these headlights.

Those LED's in R8 are different from the 50's. Just like the first diesel with todays commonrail diesel tech, or the early gasoline engines with 20L displacement producing only 26HP, and today's 1.5L producing 109HP

The down side is that these lights only lasts for about 50 hours, then they start dimming, that was the reason why BMW opted for the corona rings rather to ensure surability.

audi needs eye shadow to attract customers.. all the best

Expensive technologies do not always filter down to smaller production cars. By now we would have seen Carbon fibre used in production cars as in F1 cars, We would have also seen ceramic brakes being used alot more but that is also restricted to expensive cars. The point is people are faced with opportunity costs every day. One would rather spend money on whats neccesary. LED is not that neccesary except to distract people or rather atrract their attention. LED's are as irrelevant as having big mag rims that keep on spinning when you come to a stop, LED's are a rip of at that price. If i want better vision at night i'll take Mercs night vision infra any time now tha's an invention you can hoot and lay claim to being a marvel. Is Audi really trying to re-invent the wheel? Fools gold.

Read the comments, my thoughts exactly.http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels24/News/General_News/0,,1369-1372-2094_2332048,00.html