Your description of the hinge points is correct, but your definition of
butterfly doors is my definition of scissor doors (also commonly called
Lambo doors, for obvious reasons).
Scissor doors - primary opening motion is up and forward (not outward),
usually rotating around a single pivot-point at the base of the
A-pillar, see most newer Lamborghinis:
Gullwing Doors - primary opening motion is laterally outwards and up
(not forward), usually hinged along a longitudinal line towards the
center of the roof, see Delorean, Mercedes 300SL:
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:14, Andrei Cular wrote:
> Based on the pictures I have seen of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren
> Coupe's doors have two hinge points which make it a gullwing rather than
> butterfly. The fwd hinge is located at the base of the A piller and the
> aft hinge is at the top. The cabrio version has the butterfly doors,
> which is a single hinge point that the door rotates around. It would be
> kind of hard to hang that whole door on the windshield with no roof...
>
>
> Andrei
>
>
>
> delorean66 wrote:
>
> >btw, those are not gullwing doors. they are called "butterfly doors"
> >and if you look closely, they are not hinged the same way as the
> >delorean. ;-)
> >
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "frvianna" <frvianna@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I knew I had something against Mercedes. I just saw on MSN news a
> >>picture of the Future Model SLR, by Mercedes, gullwing doors! I
> >>
> >>
> >think
> >
> >
> >>we can all imagine where they inspired the idea from. Only that
> >>
> >>
> >the
> >
> >
> >>car is worth 300K, crazy....
> >>I couln't find a good picture of it so I could send you guys the
> >>link, but I went to mercedes.com and they have nice pictures
> >>
> >>
> >there,
> >
> >
> >>in case you are curious!
> >>
> >>Flavia
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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