i wonder if they could make our doors do this and if so how much weight would it add?

way better than lambo doors imo


jay

http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

 

That may be the oddest thing I've seen yet......

 

Yikes! Thats definitely odd...

I bet, however, if car manufacturers integrated that design into their vehicles you'd see a lot more people driving with their doors open!

 

Heaven forbid you ever need to work on the underside of the car. Maybe it's just a set of garage door tracks under there!

 

thats amazing! but odd!

 

kinda cool!

 

Woah! That's weird. Cool, but weird.

 

I saw something about that on Autoblog a while ago. I had to watch the video of the door retracting to believe it. I dont really see much practicality for it. Door work just fine opening out. I try not to park close enough to other cars for it to be an issue.

 

it can work, but it isnt probable nor practical. I've got a car that I can drive with no doors (gotta love the jeep), but this wouldnt be a good thing I dont think, because if a wire breaks or something, you wont be able to open the door.

 

While pretty cool, it doesn't wow me. Maybe because I've seen them before. Does anyone remember a car made in the early 90's by BMW? It was called the Z1. It was only available in the U.K. That car has these types of doors. Take a look at the pics below. The 1st picture below is with the door closed. The 2nd picture is with the door open (it slided down, just like this concept).

 

****, cool find Jay!

Get it done so i can see it. Prob wouldnt do it to my stang, but definatly the Mercedes.

 

Pretty cool if you ask me

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtkoje4-eM

Watch the magic

 

Pardon me, do you have an Grey Poupon for my $3K car parked in front of my $4M house? Lincoln Mark VIII, $45K new, sub $5K today.

 

Strange but cool. nice find.

 

That is so cool I'm going to be the first to mod my GT with that

 

Did you see the link to the Youtube video? That sucker is LOUD!! Not as elegant as the first video. LOL!!

 

no thanks

 

So how would that thing hold up in a side impact?

 

I'm surprised you could take off with the door open.That really needs a safety switch not allowing the driver to engage the car in the drive mode before taking off.Its really cool though,some 2dr coupes have doors that wiegh a lot and are heavy to open on an incline.