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Old 03-29-2015, 03:42 AM   #26 (permalink)
serialk11r
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I think we need more pictures.


As you can see, if you took the windshield's curvature and extended it a few inches to the side of the car, that's about where Porsche's mirrors start, the shape is like a "bullet" that goes back and is cut off at the place where the driver expects to see a mirror out the window.

Compare to the new Corolla:

A blunt, flat angled rectangle shape. A few inches shorter overall.

I wonder, how might one add length to the front of that Porsche mirror without increasing interference drag? Maybe extend the "bullet nose" forward and curve it in a little?

The Lexus LFA has really wild looking mirrors and they claimed it helps aerodynamics, but they're about as long as the Porsche mirrors:

I think the Nissan GTR also supposedly had aerodynamically tuned mirrors:

Also short and stubby!

Finally, the McLaren P1, a car that supposedly had every body detail carefully designed:


Looks a lot like the Porsche mirror!

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