What's with these little blue lights on car bonnets these days?

[boognish76]

What are they for? They don't look good, they don't seem to serve any purpose, and they often don't even seem to go with the colour of the car! Why would people shell out good money to put these pointless things on their car?

[sft42]

they are for telling the world the the owner of the car is a spotty 19 year old herbert who has no sense and thinks his clapped out nova somehow becomes a supercar by the addition of too big alloys and a few whistles and bells such as these lights.

[cupra]

Plus it's illegal to show blue lights unless you are an emergency services vehicle, but they never seem to nick anyone for having them (along with dodgy number plates and tinted windows etc.. etc..).

[Wispy68]

They're usually owned by the sexually inadequate little toerags, who get together with their equally sad mates, and have nothing better to do than meet up in McDonalds car parks, blaring their stereos to death and trying to out-rev each other! (Woah, I'm getting far too cynical for my own liking!!)

[lisaj]

sft42: I also hate spotty boy-racer types, but the nova being the car of choice is apparently because the engine mounts are the same as that of the Cavalier. When you take a second hand 2.5 litre Cavalier engine and put it in a nova, the thing (perhaps unsurprisingly) goes like $hit off a hot shovel. The sad thing is that most of them fail to afford the engine after the obligatory alloys, exhausts and subwoofers. They therefore do end up driving around in clapped out old bangers - for the same cash they could buy a 7 series BMW with 80k on the clock and it would certainly exude more class... certainly with the "laydees", whom I believe are the targets of their pent up sexual aggression so usually employed upon the accelerator pedal.