Scissor doors

 Scissor doors (also called flap doors, wing doors, beetle-wing doors, turtle doors, switchblade doors, swing-up doors, Lamborghini doors,^[1] and Lambo doors) are automobile doors that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door,^[2] rather than outward as with a conventional door.^[1]

The Lamborghini Aventador

The Lamborghini Countach

History

Advantages

Disadvantages

TypesEdit

There are different types of scissor doors. The conventional type rotates to 90 degrees.^[5]Scissor doors can be powered and they usually are.

Vertical Lift SystemEdit

VLS doors have a scissor door configuration. The biggest difference is that they are designed to initially open slightly outward before opening upward to allow the top edge of the door to clear the door frame and A-pillar.^[1] Although butterfly doors also move upwards and outwards, VLS doors are not the same as butterfly doors as VLS doors move outward only a small degree compared to butterfly doors.

130 degreesEdit

Although conventional scissor doors rotate to 90 degrees, some can rotate up to 130 degrees;^[6] these are commonly used for modified cars. Such scissor doors have the benefit of not obstructing the entrance or exit to the car as much as conventional scissor doors. VLS doors also can be made to rotate to 130 degrees.

Scissor-conventional door hybridEdit

Some aftermarket example scissor doors are also designed so they can open either vertically (scissor door) or horizontally (conventional door), as the user chooses. Such doors allow the user to gain the benefits of both types of door, choosing to open the doors in whichever style is best suited to the situation.^{[citation needed]}

In popular cultureEdit

Scissor doors are widely noted as a status symbol in popular culture. In 2012, Migosreleased a track called "Lambo Doors," in the first line referring to an observer who has never seen such high-status doors.^[7] In 2017, Rick Ross released a track called "Lamborghini Doors," in which he notes a number of objects that are rising up like the titular doors.^[8] In the TV series Silicon Valley, a character remarks that he feels poor when he has regular car doors, rather than doors that go "like this" (gesturing as if his arms were gull-wing doors) or "like this" (gesturing as if his arms were scissor doors), leading to other commentators referring to scissor doors as "billionaire doors".^[9]

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