¿Airplanes or cars? They are spectacular cars with "wings" or doors that open up to get inside. The best then.

Are those things that you were telling the classmates and they are not believed: "while on vacation, we stopped at Puerto Banus and there I saw a sports car with some doors that opened up ". What the doors Yes they had seen in those collections of cards to play in the yard, it was hard that I had seen, but it could be.

Throughout history, there have been many cars have had "wings" or doors that open up. Thanks to this you can write Lamborghini Countach or on the internet and, surely, find how rich (or hotel porter) took advantage of those scissor doors to backtrack on an acrobatic posture.

Have you been sitting on a coupé big? Have you seen how far is the door and the enormous space you need to open? Because even then access to the rear seats is easy and, as someone park next to you, even access to the front seats becomes difficult. Have you noticed how you have to throw and what weighs to close properly? It is appreciated that the windows down slightly automatically because most of them have no frame. The idea is desenclavarla of your accommodation in the roof, which fits and prevents them get out at high speed, but also helps air to escape and facilitate closure. Another of the most ingenious solutions could be found in the Renault Avantime, a deformable parallelogram in its articulation to the moving parallel to the body when opened, before pivoting and opening conventionally. The ingenious opening was generous, but gave many headaches in the first units of his short career, it will take time before they meet again something.

Only the genius a stylist has made a exotic doors perpetuating a brand. The genius was Gandini. The doors, the "from scissors". Brand, Lamborghini. Exactly that car I saw in Marbella.

Since it is difficult to select the most spectacular cars in history with opening system doors that open up, Here is a collection with which we estimate more representative in past history in the present. Which do you choose?

Mercedes 300 SL: So spend 60 years … and more

The gullwing doors gave the nickname to pioneer Mercedes 300 SL. They are not in the current AMG GT, although the SLS the recovered with a pyrotechnic device "breaking" the hinges to evacuate the car roll-over.

Carabo Bertone, the first with scissor doors

He Bertone prototype Carabo, based Alfa Romeo, happens to be the first car with an opening upward and forward. He Lamborghini Countach The consecrated in a road car.

Laferrari: type doors élitro

An opening and Coleoptera, with an oblique axis, anchoring and ceiling pillar, is a classic to access sports. If a Enzo doors invade the bottom rail in the laferrari include aerodynamic pipes.

Lincoln Navigator Concept: with wings and stairs …

I can remember a Range Rover, but with this staircase the Lincoln Navigator Concept It looks like a yacht. Perched at your doorstep, only ceiling cutout preserves solemnity and dignity upon entering. Of course, they will not pass the concept.

BMW Z1: Loft ladders at that BMW Z1

pioneer 1988 with electric gates down, concealable on the side … but no successors. The bulk lateral drawer side gave security and sensations rolling down the doors shock.

Volvo YCC: Winged very "female"…

The prototype Volvo YCC 2004 He had numerous peculiarities. The noticiada was that the project initiative, decisions and target customer himself, all arose and was designed by and for women. "Figuratively wearing pants"The solution for the doors was inevitable.

Tesla X: a door, two rows

The front doors Tesla Model X are conventional. Not to look like a limousine, gullwing choose to access the second … and third row. This is the key. Not so much vain to leave, but the huge cut in the ceiling that allows entering almost standing to sit in places six and seven.

At Tesla X, the motorization of the gates It is almost essential, because of their weight. To open, it may suffice traditional air spring, but overcome their resistance to re-closing (closing the gate imagine sitting in a seat) require drop and bring to one aided by its own weight.

Intended to improve access doors Tesla X (It measures 1.62 meters high, but you have to add additional 73.6 cm above the door) need much space sideways and upwards, which are designed with an intermediate bend (hence its name, "falcon doors") To park next to other cars and indoors. Sensors calculate the optimal kinematics during operation, they say can run with a spacing of 0.35 cm with the next car.

A Mini with wings like doors? Yes, in April "Fool’s Day"

On April 1-the day of the Holy Innocents in the Anglo-Saxon culture Mini Mini surprised with a very photoshop … the result? A Mini with various transformations, which included some striking doors that opened up.