List of cars with unusual door designs

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Many cars have door designs which give them a unique look, or which affect their practicality one way or another. This is a list of them, sorted by door type.

Contents

[edit] Butterfly Doors

McLaren F1

[edit] Road cars

[edit] Racing cars

[edit] Concept cars

[edit] Gullwing doors

The Mercedes-Benz 300SL.

[edit] Production cars

[edit] Kit cars

[edit] Racecars

[edit] Scissor doors

The Lamborghini Murciélago

[edit] Suicide doors

Delahaye Type 135

Models of automobile that featured suicide doors ie doors hinged at the rear include (but are not limited to):

[edit] Canopy doors

Lifting canopy on a Sterling Nova.
The canopy doors on a Saab Aero-X.

[edit] Sliding doors

  • BMW Z1 (the Z1 used unhinged doors that lowered into the chassis)
  • Lincoln Mark VIII Concept - (Doors "rolled" into underbody of frame and disappeared from view, much like a blind. Prototype)
  • Kaiser Darrin - Used "pocket doors" that slid forward into the front fender.
  • Mercedes-Benz NAFA Researchvehicle - A very small car similar to the Smart Fortwo with 2 doors sliding forwards.
  • Peugeot 1007 - Employs van-style motorized sliding doors, improving accessibility in tight city parking spots, particularly for drivers or passengers with limited mobility. However, the doors move slowly, restrict access to the rear seats, and contribute to the car's uncharacteristically great weight and poor performance, both through their own considerable bulk, motors, and chassis strengthening to compensate for the large holes in the monocoque frame left when they open.

[edit] Other door types

  • Koenigsegg uses a "dihedral synchro-helix" system for their vehicles (named raptor doors by a company which makes a door conversion kit for regular cars) which seems to combine the advantages of all the designs though with considerably more mechanical complexity. This is used in their CC8S, CCR and CCX.
  • Ford GT and Ford GT40 - Panels extend from the top of the doors, which fill gaps on both sides of the roof
  • Isetta - (Single front-mounted door was hinged on one side)
  • Zündapp Janus - (Front and rear mounted side-hinged doors)
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