Cars Blog April Archive

There are several different types of car doors besides the standard door. Briefly explained here are a few types:

• Gull-Wing Doors: 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
• Butterfly Doors: Butterfly doors, also called vertical doors or dihedral doors, are a type of door often seen on high performance automobiles. They are similar to scissor doors, but while scissor doors merely tilt forward and up, butterfly doors also rotate as they move forward
• Scissor doors: also called Jackknife doors or Lambo doors, are automobile doors that rotate up and forward on a hinge near the front of the door
• A suicide door is a car door that is hinged on the trailing edge; the edge closer to the rear of the vehicle. The term reflects a perceived increased danger of the door falling open if it becomes unlatched while the car is moving