# What kind of auto mirrors are on this obscure car? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 9, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-auto-mirrors-are-on-this-obscure-car/391436 "2007-02-09T00:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-auto-mirrors-are-on-this-obscure-car/391436/21 "2007-02-11T11:07:45Z")
[QUOTE=Caractacus Pott] I’m in northern Japan and it seems about a quarter of the cars on the road have one of those mirrors, though they’re mounted only on the driver’s fender. Oddly, they’re much smaller than the door mounted mirrors. I wonder if they’re convex mirrors? \ [/QUOTE] Following up, they’re convex on current vehicles, so no more of **Rick** ’s adjustment method. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-auto-mirrors-are-on-this-obscure-car/391436/22 "2007-02-11T16:24:44Z")
Can’t understand why they wouldn’t be powered for adjustment like any decent American car’s side view mirrors are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-auto-mirrors-are-on-this-obscure-car/391436/23 "2007-02-11T19:27:33Z")
Quite possibly because the Mitsubishi pictured in the OP was built in the 1960s, and electric power mirrors pretty much did not exist then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-auto-mirrors-are-on-this-obscure-car/391436.md?page=1)