Quoting Golf Juliet Tango: Quoting Martin Jeffrey: The Sprite Alpine rear lights really have reached there sell by date.
Surely it must be possible to come up with a similar,neat, perhaps recessed unit using LED technology.
Exactly, as they redesigned the front wings, it would have been easy to rework the rear wings to accomodate the (for example) 95mm diameter lights which SVC sell.
The Lotus Seven Twin Cam SS had frenched lights that used the existing Alpine lenses, as did the Series IV.
As for technology in this area, I've often thought that the rear of the car is somewhat untidy, and when the original Vauxhall race cars were developed with no rear lights I thought that they looked great. I would love to see arrays of LEDs behind tiny holes in the rear wings, with further LEDs at the edges (or fibre optics) to cover off the requirement for lights to be seen from the side, but I suspect that the lack of 'E' markings may be an issue.