So what does the panel think about this one?
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10 years ago
So what does the panel think about this one?
It's a new idea to me, but the copyright notice says 2007. There's an obvious conclusion to be drawn.
Gull wing doors are much better when it is raining.
Colin Bignell
But hopeless in just about every other situation.
Tim
They look pretty though
Colin Bignell
Saw this a while ago; it's a solution looking for a problem.
Useless for parking next to another car or wall, etc.
On Tuesday 26 November 2013 07:14 harryagain wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Bring it on!
It would stop me having a heart attack when the kids open doors in carparks, particularly when there's a howling wind!
(This stems from an incident where I had to make a grovelling apology to another car owner about dinging his door when a gust of wind whipped the door out of SWMBO's hand)
Even better would be inventing the force field, then driving around with (apparantly) no door at all!
On Tuesday 26 November 2013 08:12 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Can you even open them in a car park?
On Tuesday 26 November 2013 09:36 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Especially good for twatting the copper in the chin and doing a runner after he's pulled you for speeding!
Are they really that much worse than normal hinged doors?
Low roofs, otoh, definitely.
On Tuesday 26 November 2013 10:43 Adrian wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Well, even I can slip my lardy arse through a partly opened normal door. I would however not want to limbo in under an obstructed gullwing door!
I remember a video of some model or other with gullwing doors specifically showing that they /could/ be opened in quite a minimal gap, comparable to the minimum needed to get in/out of an ordinary car.
They look drop dead sexy, but what happens when the whole side of the car d rops open and the munchkins in the back decide to unbuckle and jump out? Al so, surely it makes for less security when the nearby scrote suddenly has f ull access to whatever is on the back seats?
Yes - unless shaped like a worm. ;-)
I still wouldn't mind owning a Mercedes SL300 gullwing, despite my diesel estate car having a higher top speed, better acceleration, greater economy, vastly superior road holding, much more comfort and an engine that doesn't need an oil change every 200 yards.
Colin Bignell
Oh indeed - a real classic design. But although the doors were a good idea where they could be opened easily, you then had to negotiate a massive sill. I've sat in one many years ago.
All of which easily forgiven when driving one, I'd guess.
That was where they hid the space frame chassis and was why it needed gullwing doors.
When I was last in Stuttgart, Mercedes were offering a factory reconditioned one - at EUR 500,000. I didn't get to sit in it.
Possibly not from what I've read of the handling, but they do look cool.
Colin Bignell
You mean being seen driving one?
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