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11-16-2003, 09:16 PM
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Okay, lemme explain how I can up with this idea. While watching the Top Gear review of the Ford GT(40?) I thought it was a cool and smart idea of having apart of the roof as the door. It makes for easy entries and exits.
So while I was focusing on my studies I wondered how that design could be bettered. Then it hit me. Minivan doors.
Sliding doors don't occupy much space when they are fully opened compared to the conventional swinging doors. You don't have to worry about dinging other car doors, or yours for that fact. If you incorporate both designs you get a very practical and simple door design.
I think is beats all other doors. The only bad aspect is associating the door with a minivan.
Is there anybody else who thinks this is a bad design? If there is I
So while I was focusing on my studies I wondered how that design could be bettered. Then it hit me. Minivan doors.
Sliding doors don't occupy much space when they are fully opened compared to the conventional swinging doors. You don't have to worry about dinging other car doors, or yours for that fact. If you incorporate both designs you get a very practical and simple door design. I think is beats all other doors. The only bad aspect is associating the door with a minivan.
Is there anybody else who thinks this is a bad design? If there is I
11-17-2003, 02:32 AM
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The slidings rails would give you problems aesthetically - there's no way to hide them. You could eliminate them with pieces that retract into the door/frame, instead of the traditional setup where it has a 3-point mount, with the 3rd mount at the back end of the door, but you'd lose a lot of its structural integrity in doing so.
If you don't want to ding your doors, just get some scissor (Lambo-style) doors.
If you don't want to ding your doors, just get some scissor (Lambo-style) doors.
11-17-2003, 09:16 AM
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The GT doors would still have something your minivan doors would lack....the ability to easily get in and out with a helmet on. I think that something like the minivan doors would have ugly rails and alot of weight, but for a really wide car it would be nicer than having to crack your door open in a tight parking spot.
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11-17-2003, 11:10 AM
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I think you could maybe achieve something similar with suicide doors. hehehe, it's look kind of goofy having 2 doors with just 1 seat there, but it'd open up the middle of the area so you could easily get in and out, and would also cut down on the amount of swing the doors would have to them by 1/2. Might be goofy, but we are talking about putting a sliding door on a sports car here 
11-17-2003, 11:29 AM
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You could actually have the door swing out and back on extending and retracting arms as opposed to huge rails and such. They'd have to be beefy but it would allow you to keep the sliding rails to a minimum (and make it look pretty cool in the meantime). I'd probably have to draw it up to explain what I mean but I do know long, clunky rails aren't required. It'd kind of be a lift (push) and swing (slide) deal.
