[Normy]

That car is f-in HOT! Holy crap!

I'm surprised it wasn't used in the movie "The Fast and the Furious", it looks perfect for the role. And for once a convertible 928 actually looks right! Randy V over at bannlist had this silly white 928 convertible for a while; my dad had a chevette that was better looking that that car! That guy was so "all about Porsche", and yet he owned a turd!

Hmm. Appropriate, I guess-

Anyway...you're right! Those mirrors are HOT. I was looking at mine today and thinking that these are really stupid. Tons of air drag, no style at all, why not just remove them. I'm serious- I don't trust mirrors at all- when I change lanes I ALWAYS look over my shoulder to see what is there, since mirrors have lied to me time and time again. So why have them at all? They look stupid, these flags sticking out of the tops of the doors. We are used to looking at them so it doesn't register to us, but a person from another planet would look at them and probably be bewildered about them. I suspect that cars from 2015 onward are just going to have tiny cameras mounted in place, and a small LCD screen mounted inside at the forward part of the side window to show what is left or right of you. Many cars already have backup cameras, basically the same thing.

These screens only need be there for old people, who typically have arthritis in the neck vertebra and don't turn their heads to check the next lane. A doctor told me about this last fact- old people don't pull out in front of you because they don't see you, they do it because they have stiff and painful necks due to degradation of their spine, so they rely on peripheral vision. If we happen to be in their blind spot, then they pull out in front of us.....

Those mirrors are hot, but the local Advance auto sells a kit to install backup cams on a car built without them. It would be real easy to pull the mirrors and simply install cams and screens on each side of the car.

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