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Renault Coupe Corbusier – large suicide-scissor front doors. Renault Laguna Coupe Concept. Renault Zoom. Spyker Silvestris V8. Toyota Alessandro Volta. Toyota Bionic+ – large suicide-scissor front doors. Toyota Concept-愛i – front scissor doors with rear suicide scissor doors. Vector WX-3. Volkswagen W12 Nardó.
A suicide door is an automobile door hinged at its rear rather than the front. [ 1] Such doors were originally used on horse-drawn carriages, [ 2] but are rarely found on modern vehicles, primarily because they are less safe than a front-hinged door. Being rear-hinged, if the vehicle were moving and the door opened, aerodynamic drag would force ...
Often called autolocs, or autoloc doors, after a popular manufacturer of such doors. Shaved doors are popular on hot rods, street rods, muscle cars, tuned cars (mostly Japanese), trucks, and mini trucks. It is also a traditional modification on many lead sleds, dating back to the 1940s. A solenoid is used to open the door. This solenoid can be ...
The Lamborghini Aventador The Lamborghini Countach. Scissor doors (also called flap doors, wing doors, beetle-wing doors, turtle doors, switchblade doors, swing-up doors, upswing doors, Lamborghini doors, [1] and Lambo doors) are automobile doors that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door, [2] rather than outward as with a conventional door.
Butterfly doors are a type of car door sometimes seen on high-performance cars. They are slightly different from scissor doors. While scissor doors move straight up via hinge points at the bottom of a car's A-pillar, butterfly doors move up and out via hinges along the A-pillar. [ 1] This makes for easier entry and exit, at the expense of ...
The Lincoln EL-Series is a full-size luxury car that was marketed and sold by Lincoln from 1949 to 1951. Replacing the H-Series Lincoln, the postwar model line was the first complete redesign of the Lincoln sedan line since 1936 (its predecessor was derived from the prewar Zephyr ). In line with its predecessor, the EL-Series Lincoln carried ...
Opened front and rear doors on a 1957 Rambler Rebel. A car door is a type of door opening, typically hinged on its front edge, but sometimes attached by other mechanisms such as tracks, for entering and exiting a vehicle. Doors most often integrate side windows for visibility from inside the car and can be locked to secure the vehicle.
The 1960s Lincoln and Thunderbird 4-door cars with so-called "suicide doors" were quite safe, compared to early cars which coined the term "suicide doors". You must go back to the early 1930s to find popular American cars which caused numerous accidental deaths due to the door design.