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Originally Posted by Number 3
Pretty sure these are the same technology. GM pretty much lead the use of light pipes and LEDs. They just haven't received the credit for it. Current CTS had light pipes front and rear from the onset. The Escalade has had available LED headlamps (not just running lights) for several years now.
Not sure what you mean by "Christmas Tree Light" though.
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Well, actually, it is a quote from Jeremy Clarkson from Top gear. He was making fun of some fancy car a few years back that had what he called "Fairie lights" on it, and it turns out that this is what they call the lights we put on our Christmas trees here in the USA.
The point that he didn't like is that they spread a bunch of individual LEDs across the surface of the light in a line and they look just like the "fairie lights" on a string. This was the stylists way of appealing to luxury car owners need for saying saying "HEY LOOK! I HAVE LEDS AND YOU DON'T, SUCKERS!!!!"
Soon, every autozone tack on LED light adopted this style, and luxury cars dropped it like a hot ball of burning magnesium! They now use lightpipes and diffusers to even the light out across the lens, rather than showing all the pinpoints of light.
I don't hate it so much on the tail lamps on cars, but for DRLs and marker lights, it looks crappy.
By the way, I believe that Cadillac was the first car maker to use LED taillights on the DTS back in like 2000 or 2001. I think I remember reading that.