1. A system for providing enhanced perspective viewing of an area in front of a vehicle, said system comprising: a first camera mounted at the left front of the vehicle; a second camera mounted at the right front of the vehicle; an image acquisition module receiving raw images from the cameras, where the raw images from the cameras have a generally forward view perspective; a processor including a memory module, said processor being configured to provide a virtual perspective view of the area in front of the vehicle, where the virtual perspective view is synthesized from the raw images from the cameras, the virtual perspective view uses a camera image surface model which corrects for artificial magnification and stretching effects of the image, and where the camera image surface model is a model of a surface onto which pixels from the raw images are projected, and the surface is in a shape of a horizontal quarter-cylinder for a below-horizon area of the raw images and is a flat planar shape for an above-horizon area of the raw images, and the virtual perspective view includes corrections in an overlap region of the raw images from the first camera and the second camera; and a display unit in a cockpit area of the vehicle for displaying the virtual perspective view from the processor for viewing by a driver of the vehicle.