Saw that some years back, interesting. I'd hate to think what happens if the electric motor on that has fits.

 

It would be great for stupid people that don't know how NOT to open their door and NOT hit someone else's car.
Good idea, except how do you work it with a power failure problem?

 

How much would that option cost?

 

Reminds me of the old Clamshell tailgates on the 70s LandBarge Station wagons:


My biggest concern would be how to get into it in the winter, when it's icy and the windows are frozen shut.
There's been alot of times here in Colorado, where you go to roll a window down and all you hear is the slight cracking of some ice, and the window motor make a slight whiring sound.

 

BMW actually built a production car with similar doors.

 

Convenient and handy, yes....but what's going to happen when the electrical or mechanical parts for it fail and it looks like this outside?



Well...at least it all but eliminates the need for body-side moldings.

 

Brilliant. Love the idea and it looks decent

 

Yeah. Definitely a koolness factor.

 

My first thought, if someone T-Bones you your definitely dead.

 

pretty cool, i wonder why it never made the production, it seems to have been shopped by everyone from Ford to GM.

It would be inconvenient during storms, but otherwise cool.

 

Why would this be inconvenient during storms? I don't like it when the door panel gets wet now, this seems like a much better solution. Plus, you can get in before closing the umbrella

 

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Sometimes automation creates more problems than it solves...and a simple manual mechanical system...like a door with a latch and two hinges...really works the best and the most reliably.

I'm thinking of 80's and 90's power closing trunks, automatic seatbelts, etc etc

 

Some of the most unreliable doors of that era were on the stainless steel gull-wing De Loreans and some later Honda Odyssey minivans that used GM-designed hardware for their power-closing side-doors.