Wings On Cars

[Khandro]

An English-speaking, German friend says - having looked in dictionaries - that the part of a car body which houses the wheel both front and rear are called wings.

I say nobody calls them wings any more, but I may be wrong. What do you call, particularly the rear part of the car body, in which the wheel sits, if anything ?

I say we have wing mirrors, but that is because they used to be fixed at one time to the car's mudguards and anyway now they are usually fixed to the doors.

  

[ToraToraTora]

naomi, stop it with the riddles, what precicesly is it that you have never heard of?

[ToraToraTora]

13:53 says: "We call them wings.

Fenders are bumpers aren't they?" - so which is it you have never heard of? Wings or Fenders?

[douglas9401]

For goodness sake, listen to what the man said.

[newmodarmy]

With a little luck, it's all sorted now douglas.