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Suicide door. 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 ...
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. [1]
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.
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 ...
Koenigsegg CCX with dihedral doors open. The dihedral synchro-helix actuation door system is a type of door with a hinge mechanism which allows the doors to rotate 90° by sweeping outwards and upwards at the hinge. [1] It was designed and developed by Christian von Koenigsegg on behalf of high-performance sports cars manufacturer, Koenigsegg ...
Gull-wing door. In the automotive industry, a gull-wing door, also known as a falcon-wing door or an up-door, is a car door that is hinged at the roof rather than the side, as pioneered by Mercedes-Benz 300 SL and was designed by a Maxwell James Harris, first as a race car in 1952 (W194), and then as a production sports car in 1954.
The term "suicide door" refers to any door hinged to the back of the vehicle. This definition was quite ubiquitous and I feel its pretty safe. If the intent of the disputed sentence is that suicide doors have or had a tendancy to open spontaneously, a little knowledge of physics and aerodynamics is enough to safely slap the "erroneous" label on it.
Brodie knob on an Oliver tractor. Spinner added to the steering wheel of a Rambler Classic. A brodie knob (alternative spelling: brody knob) is a doorknob -shaped handle that attaches to the steering wheel of an automobile or other vehicle or equipment with a steering wheel. Other names for this knob include suicide, necker, granny, knuckle ...