Cars With Flip Up Doors

Once it hits the show room floor the tesla model x suv will be the newest automobile sold on the market with gull wing doors.

Cars with flip up doors. Bmw vision efficientdynamics a concept electric car based on the production bmw i8 with butterfly doors. Flip up doors may sometimes be referred to as lamborghini doors but mercedes benz was utilizing top hinged gull wings decades before lamborghini s countach concept debuted its scissor style. Audi nanuk similar doors to the mclaren 12c with panels extend from the top to the roof similar to the ford gt40 bertone mantide. These doors date back to the late 60s when they appeared on a car called the alfa romeo carabo.

Up next two door honda civic with custom sliding doors duration. When the lamborghini countach was introduced its signature vertical doors created an enduring sensation. In fact the history of gull wing doors should have given tesla some good reasons to avoid them. 8 lamborghini aventador scissor door system via.

Crazy custom car flip mutant doors ldj666. Soon cars began appearing here and there with one off custom designed and engineered lambo doors and it wasn t long before aftermarket entrepreneurs recognized an opportunity. Butterfly doors need more lateral room on the sides of the vehicle than scissor doors. Cadillac urban luxury concept.

The most famous cars with this system are the ferrari laferrari mclaren f1 mclaren p1 bmw i8 ferrari enzo and mercedes benz slr mclaren. Yes lamborghinis do have this style of entrance but they weren t the originators. Mercedes invented them in 1956 because the design of the car required very high sills.