[basjoos]

That headlight placement is going to make vision treacherous and blinding when driving in the fog or snow. It will be like driving down a powerful spotlight beam and totally blinding when there are light scattering particles in the beam. Ideally you want the maximum separation between your line of sight and the headlight's line of sight. That is why fog lights are normally placed on or below the front bumper. If that is where the headlights end up on the production vehicle, I would never buy it just for that safety concern. The headlight position on the Leaf is almost as bad.

I hate it when the automotive manufacturers pursue styling trends at the expense of safety. First we had the tiny "armored car" window sizes (notably on the Hummers, Chrysler 300, Chevy HHR, new Camaro) limiting your line of sight when looking out of the car and creating numerous blind spots, then we went to the massive "C" pillars creating a huge blind spot on your 4 to 5 o'clock position (new Honda CRV, CR-Z, Prius, Matrix), and now they want you to to be staring straight down the beam of the driver's side headlight.