Sit in a W124 or a W201 driver’s side and set the mirrors correctly then report back before assuming w/o first hand experience.

Dude ..I didn’t make this shit up. It’s a German design feature. Why can’t you get that through your head?

That’s just how they shipped from the factory.

Mine did as well! I had the later face-lifted version of the 300CE.

I understand what your saying but my counterargument is that the primary reason why German cars—not European cars in general—of this era, have differing side-view mirror shapes is for the reasons I announced—because the German Autobahn was the standard to which all of these cars were built to.

Your point of there being no “Autobahn in Japan or the UK” has no relevance to there being stubby mirrors on these cars. That’s just how they were made in and how they were shipped because of this German mentality of “form following function.”

I didn’t mention LHD vs RHD because I thought that was obvious enough difference to not be mentioned.

“...why European manufacturers bothered to make the mirrors stubby on UK and Japanese models...”

It’s the same reason why Americans got the stubby mirrors too—streamlined manufacturing processes. Automakers were already faced with manufacturing complications of meeting different emissions requirements.

It was simply one…

The changeover to equal-length has to do with differing safety regulations in different regions (the same reasons as to why lots of 1980s and 1990s German cars have different headlight lens patterns in Europe than in the US).

Uniform safety measures also means cost saving while manipulating the theater of safety.

Many…

No. Germans had stubby passenger side mirrors for shorter viewing distances versus wider driver side mirrors for longer distances.

The logic being: German cars were engineered for the Autobahn where keeping right unless passing is imperative. The longer viewing distances is for double checking to make sure that a…

All good man!

I pass cops doing the speedlimit every day in my commute. Even here in bumbfuck NJ and NYC in my ricey Honda with a loud exhaust.

What if he was stopped on the side, and I drove by below the speed limit, I’m still passing him. Thus, this absolute logic is flawed greatly.

So if the officer is doing 5MPH, no flashing lights, or spot lights, because maybe he’s crawling to look for something, I have to come to a full stop or do 5MPH too?

I think another article deserves to be written, highlighting how easy it is for idiot cops like the one who pulled you over, plus the retarded courtroom staff, to sway BS and screw the citizen. I know it’s old news. But it deserves to be brought to light because BS is BS. Sorry you had to go through this man...it…

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Way to bounce around the point bruv. I’m not speaking specifically on the Tail. You don’t find it stupid that motorcyclists who support lanesplitting are shunning the same practice of crossing/ignoring lines when a car does it in an empty area? Jeebus how many times do I have to nail this simple point and concept in…

Uhhh....Lanesplitting can only occur in crowded situations as it’s part of the definition of lanesplitting...r u srs bruv.....

I’m fine with this point...I’m not fine with motorcyclists bitching at cars when they cross a line with no visible opposing traffic, but then those same motorcyclists justify squeezing in between cars like they’re an exception.

Dan, I’m aware of the Tail and how volatile it is as a road. I’m dialing it back just to overall the general practice and argument of not giving a shit about lines, and one party bitching about it when someone on four wheels does it in an empty area but completely justifying it when they do it themselves in a crowded…