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Scissors – rotate vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door, and open by rotating on a horizontal axis, perpendicular to the vehicle's length. Scissor doors that also move outward while rotating are called dihedral synchro-helix actuation doors.
The Alfa Romeo Carabo concept car was the first vehicle to use scissor doors. 2006 Smart Roadster with prepared panel and scissor doors The Alfa Romeo Pandion concept car with rear-hinged scissor doors. The first vehicle to feature scissor doors was the 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo concept car, designed by Bertone's Marcello Gandini. The door style ...
The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale was the first car with butterfly doors.. Butterfly doors were first seen on the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale in 1967. [2]These doors were commonly used in Group C and IMSA GTP prototypes, as they preserved the aerodynamic shape of the canopy while allowing the driver to enter and exit the car more quickly than conventional and gullwing doors.
Fisker used to save significant development costs by using pre-engineered components developed by other car companies whenever possible, such as the door handle mechanism which was a General Motors part; Fisker Automotive just paid a royalty to GM for each door handle in the Karma, which was much cheaper than designing its own door handles. [38]
As seat belts were not commonly used at that time, the person could easily fall out of the car and into traffic, hence the name "suicide door". [3] [4] Another risk was from a car speeding past the parked car in the same direction. A front-hinged door would tend to be ripped off the parked car, but someone partly outside it might escape injury ...
The "Mc1" and "M1" cars are each fitted with two scissors-type pantographs. [3] The "Mc1" and "M1" cars of set 8008 are each fitted with two single-arm pantographs. [3] Car 5 of set 8020 is numbered 8670 (type T8550), and car 6 is numbered 8790 (type T8750). [3] Cars 7 and 8 of sets 8002 to 8007 include transverse seating. [3]
The "Mc", "Mc1", and "M1" cars are each fitted with two scissors-type pantographs. [3] 8300 series in original style before 1995. 8300 series second build train, July ...
The "Mc" and "M" cars are fitted with two scissors-type pantographs. Kobe Line 8-car mixed 7000/8000 series sets. In June 2019, set 8042 was transferred over to Kobe ...