Unique Types of Car's Door

Gull-Wing Door

A gull-wing door, also known as a falcon-wing door, is an automotive industry term describing car doors that are hinged at the roof rather than the side, as pioneered by the 1952 Mercedes-Benz 300SL race car (W194) and its road-legal version (W198) introduced in 1954. Opening upwards, the doors evoke the image of a seagull's wings. Wikipedia

Pagani Huayra

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Suicide Door

A suicide door is the slang term for an automobile door hinged at its rear rather than the front.Such doors were originally used on horse-drawncarriages,but are rarely found on modern vehicles due primarily to safety concerns. Wikipedia

Rolls Royce Sweptail

Scissor Door

Scissor doors are that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door, rather than outward as with a conventional door. Wikipedia

Lamborghini Aventador SV

Seat Mounted Door

A seat mounted door is suicide door model but have a seat mounted on it. This door is very rarely use on a car or other vehicles.

Peugeot EX 1

Peugeot EX 1 (from top)

Vehicle Canopy Door

A vehicle canopy is a rarely used type of door for cars. It has no official name so it is also known as an articulated canopy, bubble canopy, cockpit canopy, canopy door, or simply a canopy. A canopy is a type of door which sits on top of a car and lifts up in some way, to provide access for passengers. It is similar to an aircraft canopy. There are no established sub-types of canopies, so they can be hinged at the front, side, or back, although hinging at the front is most common. Canopy doors are rarely used on production cars, and are sometimes used on concept cars. Wikipedia

Lamborghini Egoista

Maserati Birdcage

Sliding Door

A sliding door is a type of door is mounted on or suspended from a track for the door to slide, usually horizontally. It is a feature predominately relegated to minibuses and buses to provide a large entrance or exit for passengers without obstructing the adjacent pathway between the vehicle and any adjoining object or the side(s) of passenger and commercial vans so as to allow a larger unobstructed access to the interior for loading and unloading. Wikipedia

Swan Door

A swan door is open outward like either a conventional door or a suicide door, but on an axis slightly tilted from vertical, or via articulation in the hinge to angle upward for better ground clearance.

Aston-Martin

Raptor Door

A raptor door is open by rotating 90° at the hinge. This door most widely used by Koenigsegg car.

Koenigsegg One-1

Butterfly Door

Butterfly doors is a type of door sometimes seen on high-performance cars. They are similar to scissor doors. While scissor doors move straight up via hinge points at the bottom of the A-pillar, butterfly doors move up and out via hinges along the A-pillar. This makes for easier entry/exit at the expense of requiring more opening space than needed for scissor doors. Wikipedia

McLaren P1

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Pocket Door

A pocket door is a sliding door that slides along its length and disappears, when open, into a compartment in the adjacent wall, or as in terms of vehicles, into the vehicle's bodywork. Pocket doors were used in some vans, including Renault Estafette and Morris J4 and train carriages such as the London Underground 1973 Stock, but rarely in cars.

Vertical Door

A vertical door is a type of sliding door that slides vertically, usually on a rail or track.

Conventional Door

A conventional door is a normal door that open outward, like suicide door.

Front Door

A front door is a type of conventional door but opened from the front of the car.

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