Vw introduces LED Rear Lights on the Golf

For the first time, Volkswagen introduces the LED rear lights on the Golf R, Golf GTI and GTD as an option for 350 Euros. As you can see from the photo, each rear light features now two curved right angles, each angle containing eleven LEDs but also two distinctive LED center dots.

This means that the new rear lights come with 48 LEDs designed to offer the sporty hatch a distinctive look in the night. Vw assures us that the response time when brake is 0.2 second faster than that of conventional incandescent lights and this means that at a speed of 100 km/h it is equivalent to 5.6 meters braking distance. And this is not all!
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linequality - 12/9/2009 4:21:44 PM

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ooo this is gonna look sick on the r32

1dott8 - 12/9/2009 4:59:55 PM

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Looks pretty good.

synx - 12/9/2009 5:31:56 PM

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wow!

FanboyOfTheTruth - 12/9/2009 5:52:27 PM

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Wow...thanks to VW for leading the way. And thanks to TRYME for bringing this breaking news of innovation to us.

Steve - 12/9/2009 5:53:35 PM

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I just checked: It's 2009. Are LED tail lights really news? Or just for VW?

Denali - 12/9/2009 9:44:27 PM

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nice

Joe_Limon - 12/9/2009 10:13:40 PM

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Oh mai, welcome to year 2000 Caddilac territory.

Joe_Limon - 12/9/2009 10:15:42 PM

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Question though, 0.2s faster to light up? Regular VW brake lights take that long??

kablaam - 12/10/2009 1:11:14 AM

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Has nothing to do with VW, rather incandescent vs LED technology.

Joe_Limon - 12/10/2009 1:36:43 AM

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oh? Here I thought maybe there was something wrong with VW cars because I know mine light up instantly when I hit the brakes... lol, gotta hate the lag time between flipping the light switch on the wall and seeing the incandescent lights turn on XD

kablaam - 12/10/2009 8:17:14 AM

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Are you being facetious? Whatever the case,.2 seconds @ 60mph is close to 18 feet. So yeah, it makes a difference.

What is wrong with making things better, faster, more efficient? Isn't that a good thing?

Joe_Limon - 12/10/2009 4:34:38 PM

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Don't believe everything you read on the internet. It does not take incandescent light bulbs 0.2s to light up. I used the wall switch analogy as an example.

kablaam - 12/10/2009 8:07:06 PM

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Incandescent bulbs take .2 seconds LONGER to light up. An unscientific test would be, look at a car with a LED 3rd brake light and incandescent brake lights, see which light turns on/off quicker. It's pretty obvious. Make sure you don't blink though, .2 seconds is pretty quick :-)

Joe_Limon - 12/10/2009 9:16:19 PM

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I know it says 0.2 seconds longer and not 0.2 seconds. The point I was making that in order for it to be 0.2 seconds longer the LED ones would have to light up before the pedal has even been applied. Incandescent bulbs turn on within a thousandth of a second due to the minuscule size of the filament itself. Maybe some sort of neon or fluorescent bulb of that size would take up 0.2 or more seconds to light up. But as to standard incandescent bulbs no, I'm sorry they are pretty much instantaneous.

kablaam - 12/11/2009 6:48:15 AM

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Instantaneous, is that faster than .2 seconds ? lol

LED is better than Incandescent when light up speed, durability and efficiency are concerned, so pretty much every automotive application. Do you have vested interest in incandescent lights or something?

My eyes and every EE/ME in the world all agree.

I95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 12/11/2009 11:54:52 AM

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What is it with people just not staying out of topics they do not understand.

Joe

LED Bulbs light up Faster than Tungsten Filament Bulbs.

That is a Fact and if you have not already witnessed it with your own eyes as many half sensible car enthusiasts must have done by now with the High Level LED Brake Lights then you are too Dim-Witted to debate on this site.

I also noticed while in the USA that quite a few of the SUVs from the Big 3 feature Regular Bulbs in the High Level Brake Lights Cluster instead of LED like all the German and I think all the Japanese Manufacturers.

Maybe thats why Joe has not noticed the difference

Joe_Limon - 12/11/2009 5:25:18 PM

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If you can notice the difference between a ten thousandth of a second and a thousandth of a second congrats cause I sure the hell can't. I am merely arguing that it doesn't take incandescent bulbs a fifth of a second to turn on. And lol at durability, I just saw a brand new A4 today with half of its LED's malfunctioning.