Eine namhafte Deutsche Firma ;-)

driver side mirror, passenger side mirror

auf einen Auto?
"wing mirror" wird ziemlich oft verwendet.

"A wing mirror is a mirror found on motor vehicles for the purposes of helping the driver see areas behind the vehicle. A wing mirror is mounted (usually) on a wing or part analagous thereto, unlike a rear-view mirror. Sometimes a wing mirror is called a side-view mirror, although the purpose of the mirror is to help the driver see to the vehicles rear, not its sides."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-view_mirrors

Usage examples:
www.chevrolet.com ["side-view mirror"]
www.chrysler.com ["side view mirror"]

But Ford [www.ford.com] shows "outside mirror", instead, and Land Rover's Range Rover website for the US [www.landroverusa.com] uses "exterior mirror", and the Range Rover site for the UK [www.landrover.co.uk] shows "side mirror".

Here, I and my family and friends say "side view mirror".We might even write it "sideview mirror", but we usually write it "side-view mirror".

I think it's logical to say "side mirror", but that's not the custom where I live, at least among the people I know.

I grew up in the southeastern United States, in Atlanta, Georgia. I was born in the mid-1960s. I'm writing this on Friday, March 9, 2007.

In the UK it's called wing mirror. You differentiate between off-side (OS) and near-side (NS) wing mirrors.

http://www.wingsnthings.co.uk/?gclid=CIzDipDd...

the term is also used for print layout. its the one page that has little thumbnails of all the pages and defines the space for ads, text, images, etc. anyone native english knows the term for this?

Seitenspiegel = page plan?