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You probably have overseas (Swedish) wiring (per your earlier discussion about DRLs), and yet the conventional USA-DOT plastic headlights, because of the certified importer.
When a car made for European standards is imported*, it usually has to undergo certain changes to comply with USA standards of the DOT and EPA. One of these might (almost certainly) have been changing your headlights from the Euroheadlights (that we covet) to the dismal plastics.
[ * I'm speaking from personal experience. I had a grey-market Mercedes-Benz Gelaendewagen, a 1984 280GE (see my picture below), which as a W460 (1979-1990)was actually a barely civilized military vehicle at that time, rather than the plush W463 "GWagen" version for rich Americans and even richer Russian mafia that Mercedes started selling in 1991 and still sells (but not much longer) here. Since this was long before M-B was selling it in this country, it was a "grey" and had to undergo such conversions by a certified importer before it could be registered in the USA. I needed to keep its documents not only to register it legally in this country but also as a sort of "provenance" so that, when it came time to sell it to someone else, they would be able to reregister it as well. The documents were from the DOT, saying that the car had been converted to comply with safety regs, and from the EPA declaring that the car's emissions met federal standards.]
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