gfreedman

I am looking at buying a new S5 cabriolet. I have noted that the blind spot is a bit larger compared with the hardtop convertible I last owned. Any safety concerns?

UmIsThisThingOn

With properly adjusted mirrors there's no such thing as a 'blind spot'.

http://www.cartalk.com/content/avoiding-blind-spot-6

Force-1

bb vign

AMEN!! It makes me nuts to get in a car and be able to see the sides of the car in the side view mirrors

ChipB

Yep. And it makes me nuts to be driving behind a car (or worse, SUV) and being able to see the driver's face in all 3 of his mirrors at the same time! Of course if you pull up in the adjacent lane he has no idea that you're there.

bb vign

Especially at night - you would think people would get tired of having the light from the headlights of the car behind them shining in via both side mirrors!

JGA5Cab

I drove a Cabriolet for two years and only found parking diagonally an issue with the thick roof. My new one has the blind spot warning light and that's VERY nice. I am pretty capable of changing lanes without incident but the extra assurance is nice. It's helpful too with the dimming sideview mirrors since visibility is slightly reduced when they are activated.

If you order your car, you may consider getting that option if you are that concerned about it.

aTOMic

Try a D3 A8. Almost as bad as a Countach. The sideview mirrors are entirely inadequate. They are small for style's sake, which is good, but some nitwit at our government mandated that the driver's side can't be wide angle/fisheye/aspherical, so there is waaaay too small a field of view. There is no way one can set up the driver's side adequately. Add to this the facts that the rear-view mirror is unusually small and the long slope of the back window and the huge c-pillars and large immovable headrests that block two-thirds of the view out the back. (Yes I am aware I can buy a euro-mirror replacement glass from OEMplus for $180 w/o auto dim)
It's like many beautiful things, we must suffer for aesthetics. I once saw a sig on a Ferrari forum with a picture of Cindy Crawford and words to the effect "Would you give her up just because she costs you a thousand a month, flakes out at the last minute and takes three hours to get ready to go out? I doubt it." Oh, how we suffer!