Vanity Mirror - driver's side

[hartley]

Blasting up the M6 in the DB9 with the roof down in the bright sunshine on Wednesday evening I found the sun a little bright/ low in the sky so flipped the (minuscule) sun visor open only to find I was staring into a vanity mirror - on the driver's side . What is that about - can,t think of any other car I have owned that has a vanity mirror on the drivers side.Has market research revealed we are all posers /women or is it something to do with left hand drive cars ?

[whoami]

Pretty much every modern car has this.

Even my Discovery has one.

[0000]

It's not unique to Aston, it stops women complaining that 'sexist' car designers think they should be in the passenger seat.

[Lunablack]

I believe they started fitting them after receiving a recommendation from George

[yeti]

Anecdotally, I believe the Itailians started the trend

But yes, just about everything has it now

[hartley]

Well I can tell you it's not very clever in bright sun light - creates more reflections and distractions when driving.

[whoami]

hartley said:

Well I can tell you it's not very clever in bright sun light - creates more reflections and distractions when driving.

Have you never noticed this before...

[woolders]

Maybe because the saunas been absent for such a long time, it is the first opportunity you have had to use it. I agree though, it is not very practical.

[hartley]

whoami said:

Have you never noticed this before...

Had the car 5 years and never noticed before - in my defence I live in Scotland where bright sunlight is a quiquennial event !!!

[quench]

Not sure about the DB9, but the mirror on the V8V has a flip-up cover, so you should be able to have the visor down without seeing the mirror...

[F1 NDW]

The Vanquish of course doesnt have a "vanity" mirror either side. It's far too manly for that!

[Jockman]

2002 Corsa has them both sides - and yes the DB9 has covers on the mirrors too. The covers are probably a legal requirement

[yeti]

I'll guess the Volante and coupe have different sun visors - certainly no covers on mine!

[Jockman]

yeti said:

I'll guess the Volante and coupe have different sun visors - certainly no covers on mine!

Possibly a MY permutation too ??

[AMDBSNick]

I have the flip ups. May get them covered in Chancellor Red just to bling her up a bit more

[theno23]

Pretty sure I don't have covers on my 2008 V8V, would be useful, but the sun visors block so little of the screen I rarely kind myself in a situation where they help.

[ds2000]

F1 NDW said:

The Vanquish of course doesnt have a "vanity" mirror either side. It's far too manly for that!

They probably fell out ;)

[George H]

Lunablack said:

I believe they started fitting them after receiving a recommendation from George

If you were as beautiful as me, you would want to look at yourself all the time too