An eulogy to two of the most distinctive wing mirror designs

"Kar Wai Wong" (kingawesome467) 06/10/2018 at 14:13 • Filed to: Car design, Mercedes, Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, Mirrors, Turn Signals

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Forget corporate grilles, Corporate wing mirrors!

Here are the wing mirrors from a Peugeot and a Mercedes. As you can see what differentiates these 2 types of mirrors from the rest of the norm are their treatment of the turn signal. Peugeot’s wing indicator looks like any other signal, but it’s instead on the stalk? It’s just weird for the sake of being french really, but it was distinctive and very Peugeot. Mercedes’ mirror isn’t as weird. but instead the signal is shaped in this super cool, arrow shape?

Maybe it was just me, but I thought they even suited the G-Class really well.

Anyway, they were both unique, and they both have been ditching them for some super generic mirror designs. Although while Peugeot has been recently killing it in car designs, Mercedes decided they rather liked Audi’s way of an identical lineup. Shame really, they both had the corner for distinctive mirrors.

This design can die in a hole though. Still, better to experiment.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Kar Wai Wong 06/10/2018 at 14:20

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What are you talking about? The last picture is from a pre-facelift 204 C-class. A ten year old design.

Kar Wai Wong > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 06/10/2018 at 14:44

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Yes, it was an example of a mirror design I did not like. I never said that design was recent, but the arrow shaped one at the top.

Spanfeller is a twat > Kar Wai Wong 06/10/2018 at 14:57

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I think these will become quite ominous as far as design language goes:

I think only M3 cars had them (and only some as the E46 skipped the design) but now BMW added them to the G30 m5!

Wobbles the Mind > Kar Wai Wong 06/10/2018 at 15:02

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Kia does alright with mirrors.

Milky > Kar Wai Wong 06/10/2018 at 15:09

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IMHO that Mercedes mirror looks bad on the G wagon, doesn’t match it’s blockiness.

But also this thing: