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 in communication with the first and second camera, said image acquisition module receiving raw images from the cameras, and 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 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.