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Open doors on a Chrysler Airflow. Car doors are designed to facilitate ingress and egress by car passengers. [1]Unlike other types of doors, the exterior side of the vehicle door contrasts in its design and finish from its interior side (the interior part is typically equipped with a door card (in British English) or a door panel (in American English) that has decorative and functional features.
Door card finished in black on a white door frame Car door panel in matching color and upholstery as the car's seats. A door card (in British English) [citation needed] or a door panel (in American English) is an insert on the door of a vehicle that covers the door's internal components.
Gullwing doors with a second hinge between door and moving roof panel are called falcon wing doors. 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 ...
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Designers at work in 1961. Standing by the scale model's left front fender is Dick Teague, an automobile designer at American Motors Corporation (AMC).. Automotive design is the process of developing the appearance (and to some extent the ergonomics) of motor vehicles, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, buses, coaches, and vans.
Gull-wing doors have a somewhat questionable reputation because of early examples like the Mercedes and the Bricklin. [7] The 300 SL needed the door design, as its tubular frame race car chassis design had a very high door sill, which in combination with a low roof would make a standard door opening very low and small.
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