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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 ...
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.
Rolls-Royce Phantom VIII. The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a full-sized luxury saloon car made by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. Launched in 2003, it was the first Rolls-Royce developed and introduced after BMW purchased the right to use the Rolls-Royce name and logo in 1998. It was the seventh Rolls-Royce design to use the Phantom nameplate.
The British television show Top Gear rated the car 9/10 for performance, 10/10 for quality, 9/10 for design, but criticised its high cost. Sweptail. The Rolls-Royce Sweptail was a one-off custom Phantom Coupé sold in 2017 for $12.8 million after a 4-year build making it the most expensive new car ever sold at the contemporary period.
A gull-wing door style offers similar usability, but the doors swing out from the car's area slightly. The hinge is placed in a similar location to a conventional door, so a convertible version of the car is possible with the same door style. Reduces the dooring hazard to cyclists. Disadvantages. The cost of manufacturing the door hinge can be ...
Under the image is the caption "A Lincoln concept car reusing classic "suicide door" styling first seen in 1961. Note total lack of B-pillar." There are plenty of examples decades earlier than 1961 of 4-door cars with no B pillar - try e.g. Lancia. Eddaido 09:51, 20 August 2012 (UTC) Reply
But after that initial surge in value, SoundHound has been struggling to generate excitement. In the past three months, the stock has fallen by more than 35%. While it's far from its low, the ...