Aahhh, Grey Lady indeed ... truly a 'proper' car!
Now, those mirrors which the chauffeur so disdained - it seems that Peugeot was putting the side mirrors in that more logical place long before perfidious Albion saw sense and stopped mounting them above the wheels (the nearer to the eye, the better the field of view).
That leads me to wonder..... Danny, if you can cast your mind back to earlier days, how good was the field of view in that life-preserving mirror on the Spitfire?