 A Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing with its doors open The term gull-wing door is an automotive industry term describing automobile doors which are hinged at the roof. They are so named because, when opened, the doors evoke the image of a seagull's wings. Front view of a DeLorean DMC-12 automobile. ...
Front view of a DeLorean DMC-12 automobile. ...
The De Lorean DMC-12 is a sports car which was manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Company from 1981 through 1983. ...
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The Bricklin SV-1 was a gullwing door sports car built in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from 1974 until early 1976 for the US market. ...
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Conventional car doors are typically hinged at the front-facing edge of the door and allow the door to swing outward from the body of the car.
The most well-known examples of road-cars with gull-wing doors are the Mercedes-Benz 300SL from the 1950s, the Bricklin SV-1 from the 1970s and the De Lorean DMC-12 from the 1980s. 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe from the Ralph Lauren collection 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe from the Ralph Lauren collection Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe The Mercedes-Benz 300SL was available as a two-seat closed sports car with characteristic...
The Bricklin SV-1 was a gullwing door sports car built in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from 1974 until early 1976 for the US market. ...
The De Lorean DMC-12 is a sports car which was manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Company from 1981 through 1983. ...
Practical Considerations Despite the common misconception that the gull-wing doors are mere stylistic affectations, the design is a very practical one. The advantage is that when properly designed and counterbalanced (for example, the De Lorean), they require little side-clearance to open (about 27.5 cm, or 11" in the De Lorean[1]) and allow much better entrance/egress than conventional doors. This is especially important for vehicles like the De Lorean whose width would make conventional doors awkward to use when the car is in a conventional urban parking space. De Lorean can refer to: John De Lorean, an American businessman who founded (in Ireland) the De Lorean Motor Company, which manufactured an automobile, the De Lorean DMC-12, which was used in the film Back to the Future This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists...
Design Challenges Gull-wing doors have a somewhat questionable reputation because of early examples like the Mercedes and the Bricklin. The 300 SL used the door design to allow an unusual chassis design which required a very high door sill and forced the doors to be smaller than would otherwise have been optimal. The Bricklin was a more conventional sized door but the actuation system was problematic in day-to-day use and led to unreliable operation. In addition, there was some concern that in making the door as light as possible, it couldn't provide adequate protection in side-impact accidents. There was, however, no indication that this concern was justified.
The De Lorean solved these problems by using a solid-steel torsion bar (supplied by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation) to counterbalance a full-sized door and then used simple pneumatic struts similar to those found in hatchback cars to open the doors and dampen the movement of the doors. The old Steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is sometimes described as a sea of electrons. ...
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Other disadvantages of the system were not so easy to address. For example, the gull-wing design makes creating a convertible version of the car virtually impossible since, for optimal efficiency, the hinges must be placed as close to the center of the car as possible. This was never a concern for the De Lorean since no convertible version was ever planned (though there were rumors of a four-door family car based on a front-engine chassis with room for four passengers). Saab 900 Convertible Convertible can also refer to a convertible (security) A convertible (sometimes called cabriolet in British English) is a car body style with a folding or retracting roof. ...
Saab 900 Convertible Convertible can also refer to a convertible (security) A convertible (sometimes called cabriolet in British English) is a car body style with a folding or retracting roof. ...
A chassis (plural: chassis) consists of a framework which supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animals skeleton; for example in the construction of an automobile or of a firearm. ...
It also makes sealing the car against water leaks more difficult because of the shape and movement path of the door itself. Many De Lorean owners report leakage when taking their vehicles through automated car-washes because of the high-pressure water jets, though in ordinary rainfall the seals were more than adequate.
Similar Designs In addition to the traditional gull-wing doors, there are other unusual door mechanisms - particularly among exotic and expensive cars. Lamborghini uses a design which is a hybrid of the conventional and gull-wing design which is generally referred to as a "scissor", "jack-knife" in which the door is still hinged at the front but swings upward from the car while staying parallel with the edge. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 259 KB) Summary SAAB AERO X shown 25 mars 2006 at the Saab car museum in Trollhättan, Sweden Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Saab Aero-X Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added...
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The McLaren F1 roadcar and Mercedes-Benz SLR use a variant of this system called Butterfly doors. The doors are hinged at the front similar the scissor doors but the hinges are placed higher up on the A-pillar, allowing the door to pivot both up and out. This increases the ability of the door to move out of the way of the car's occupants but does not prevent a convertible version. The Toyota Sera was a limited-release car designed exclusively for the Japanese market which used this design. Due to its unusual design, some enthusiasts in Australia, New Zealand and England have privately imported the cars. It is available only in right-hand drive configuration. The McLaren has been the most successful team in world motorsport since it appeared in 1966. ...
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Scissor doors, also called Jackknife doors, are automobile doors that rotate up and forward on a hinge near the front of the door. ...
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Koenigsegg uses a "dihedral synchro-helix" system for their vehicles which seems to combine the advantages of all the designs, though with considerably more mechanical complexity. Koenigsegg Logo Koenigsegg Automotive AB is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance cars based initially in Olofström, later moving to Margretetorp, just outside Ängelholm. ...
The BMW Z1 used a novel design in which its doors were not hinged at all but rather retracted vertically into the chassis, leaving an empty (though unusually high) sill. The BMW Z1 is a two-seat roadster developed by BMW Technik GmbH and produced from July 1988 to June 1991. ...
The kit car Nova/Sterling [2] [3] also known as Purvis Eureka [4] in Australia used a special type of door, actually a lifting canopy, on several of their models where the entire top section of the car was opened. The Saab Aero-X used a simmilar design. A kit-car is an automobile that is available in kit form, i. ...
Saab Aero-X concept Saab Aero-X is a concept car by Saab unveiled at the 2006 Salon International de lAuto. ...
List of Automobiles The following is a (partial) list of production and kit automobiles with gull-wing and other unusual door designs:
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The BMW Z1 is a two-seat roadster developed by BMW Technik GmbH and produced from July 1988 to June 1991. ...
The Bricklin SV-1 was a gullwing door sports car built in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada from 1974 until early 1976 for the US market. ...
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The De Lorean DMC-12 is a sports car which was manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Company from 1981 through 1983. ...
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Lamborghini Countach from the top. ...
The Lamborghini Diablo (which means Devil in Spanish) was a high-performance supercar built by Lamborghini of Italy between 1990 and 2001. ...
The Lamborghini Murciélago is a GT and supercar automobile made by Automobili Lamborghini S.p. ...
The McLaren has been the most successful team in world motorsport since it appeared in 1966. ...
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1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe from the Ralph Lauren collection 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe from the Ralph Lauren collection Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing Coupe The Mercedes-Benz 300SL was available as a two-seat closed sports car with characteristic...
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is a sports car and supercar automobile co-developed by DaimlerChrysler and McLaren Cars. ...
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See also Rear suicide door on a 1967 Ford Thunderbird suicide doors in a 1952 Saab 92B Suicide doors are automobile doors that are hinged on the edges closer to the back of the vehicle. ...
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