wing mirrors

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i dont no if anyone else has noticed this, but on the maclaren gtr race car, your wing mirrors actually work lol, i thougth this was rather a nice detail, has anyone else notiched this or am i seeing things lol please let me no thank you,

karl.
 
skyline_racer1
what are wing mirrors?
The mirrors on the side of the car. The ones you probably knock off everytime you go through a carpark...

These things:

wingmirror3mu.jpg


I hadn't noticed it on the Maclaren, but where are they situated?

On the Mazda L110 (? - the old one) they are mounted up on the front guards, and they work when you're in the roof view. All you can see in scenary whizzing by, but they still reflect.

A nice touch. :) 👍
 
I noticed on the 240Z (Fairlady Z) the fender mirrors work somewhat, like the Mazda Cosmo.
 
ferrari_chris
The mirrors on the side of the car. The ones you probably knock off everytime you go through a carpark...

These things:

wingmirror3mu.jpg


I hadn't noticed it on the Maclaren, but where are they situated?

On the Mazda L110 (? - the old one) they are mounted up on the front guards, and they work when you're in the roof view. All you can see in scenary whizzing by, but they still reflect.

A nice touch. :) 👍

Oh side mirrors. Never heard them called wing mirrors. Anyways, yeah, the Mclaren does have working mirrors, same with the open cockpit Le Mans cars. That's all I've seen.
 
Interestingly - or not - if your wing mirrors are on your door, they aren't wing mirrors. They're door mirrors. Wing mirrors are mounted - as with the Mazda L110A/B - on the wings. Hence the name.
 
So 'wings' are what the UK call Gaurds/Fenders? Sounded strange the first time I heard that.
 
Famine
Interestingly - or not - if your wing mirrors are on your door, they aren't wing mirrors. They're door mirrors. Wing mirrors are mounted - as with the Mazda L110A/B - on the wings. Hence the name.

What happens when they're mounted on the door frame, as in new Hondas?

Pillor-Mirrors? :lol:
 
VIPERGTSR01
So 'wings' are what the UK call Gaurds/Fenders? Sounded strange the first time I heard that.

A fender is a bumper isn't it?

Front wings are the panels above your front wheels. Rear wings are the panels above your rear wheels.
 
And what do you call the things women use to park - those bits of the car they nudge into the cars in front of and behind them?
 
But we left our wings behind.

I dont know how 'wings' when refering to gaurds is normal.
 
That's coming from a "culture" younger than the internal combustion engine... :D
 
Yeah, we took some your culture along with us then improved on it :D.

Hmmm I seem to be off topic.

Anyway, hopefully the reflection of the mirrors in the next GT will be of higher detail, although I wouldnt want that to compromise other more important details.
 
I'd rather be racing without reflection in the mirrors and against "smart" AI then having that *amazing* detailed reflection. But if nothing's compromised It'd be very cool!
 
ferrari_chris
The mirrors on the side of the car. The ones you probably knock off everytime you go through a carpark...

These things:

wingmirror3mu.jpg

Wouldn't wing mirrors have to be located on the wings (fenders, guards,...)? Those in your picture are what I'd have called side mirrors...
 
Diego440
Wait a second... aren't spoilers called wings as well? English is complicated

I actually call the bits above the wheels Fenders, the front and back btis bumpers and the spoilers i call wings. :D
 
I call them fenders since airplanes have wings....anyway.....
Diego440
Wait a second... aren't spoilers called wings as well? English is complicated
This is partly why Kids Flunk English and Foreigners Can't Learn It

"We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet's. If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example...If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?

Enough Already!!!!
the verbally insane"

Here's hoping I don't get flamed for off-topic posting.
 
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