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List of cars with unusual door designs
Butterfly Doors
The Mercedes-Benz 300SL. Production cars
Delahaye Type 135 Models of automobile that featured suicide doors include:
Lifting canopy on a Sterling Nova. 
The doors on a Saab Aero-X.
- Ferrari 512M/S
- Isdera Commendatore 112i
- AMT Piranha
- Bradley GTII
- Dare DZ
- Eagle SS Mk1
- Fiberfab Aztec 7, also known as Charger II
- Foers Ibex
- GP Talon
- Innes Lee Scorpion K19
- Replicar Cursor
Scissor (or "Lambo") Doors
Suicide Doors
- Austin FX4 — the classic London black cab
- Citroën 2CV — early models
- Fiat 500 - pre 1966
- Ford F-150 — 1997-2003 . The front doors are conventional, with suicide in the rear ones
- Ford Ranger — 2000-present. Supercab version has two rear suicide doors
- Ford Thunderbird — 1967-1971 4-door models
- Honda Element — 2003-present. Has conventional front, with suicide half doors in rear
- Lincoln Continental — 1961-1969 4-door sedans, 1961-1967 4-door convertibles
- Mazda B-Series — On the Freestyle version (based on extended cab) since 2002
- Mazda RX-8 — Has conventional front doors, with suicide half-doors in rear.
- Panhard Dyna
- Rover P4 — Cars like the Rover 90 had conventional front doors, with suicide rear doors
- Saab (92, 93 and 95/96 early models)
- Saturn ION coupé — Has conventional front doors, with suicide half-doors in the rear.
- Saturn SC — Predecessor to ION coupe; second-generation models feature one rear suicide half-door on driver's side
- Syrena — early models
- Toyota FJ Cruiser — Conventional front doors, suicide half doors in rear
- Mercedes-Benz 200t (1934)
- Mercedes-Benz 500
- Mercedes-Benz 540 (1938)
- Opel Kapitän (1938) (Back door)
- Praga Piccolo Furgon (1938)
- Rover SF12 (Both doors rear hinged) (1946)
Other door types
- Koenigsegg uses a "dihedral synchro-helix" system for their vehicles (known in the custom-car world as "raptor" doors) which seems to combine the advantages of all the designs though with considerably more mechanical complexity.
- BMW Z1 (the Z1 used unhinged doors that lowered into the chassis)
- Isetta (Single front-mounted door was hinged on one side)
- Zündapp Janus - (Front and rear mounted side-hinged doors)
- Subaru SVX (Conventional-hinged door with a split window design, used for visual effect)
- Loremo (Bottom-hinged front hatch, more conventional (but large) top-hinged rear hatch)
- Saab Aero-X concept - (Canopy lifts upwards and forwards, sides move outward and forwards)
- Maserati Birdcage 75th - (Front 2/3 of the top of the car lifts up and moves forwards)
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