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Cardea or Carda was the ancient Roman goddess of the hinge (Latin cardo, cardinis), Roman doors being hung on pivot hinges.The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the first day of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph.
This is a list of cars with non-standard door designs, sorted by door type.These car models use passenger door designs other than the standard design, which is hinged at the front edge of the door, and swings away from the car horizontally and towards the front of the car.
Open doors on a Chrysler Airflow. Car doors are designed to facilitate ingress and egress by car passengers. [1]Unlike other types of doors, the exterior side of the vehicle door contrasts in its design and finish from its interior side (the interior part is typically equipped with a door card (in British English) or a door panel (in American English) that has decorative and functional features.
The Lamborghini Aventador The Lamborghini Countach. Scissor doors (also called flap doors, wing doors, beetle-wing doors, turtle doors, switchblade doors, swing-up doors, upswing doors, Lamborghini doors, [1] and Lambo doors) are automobile doors that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door, [2] rather than outward as with a conventional door.
And a 2016 study on car buying by Beepi Inc. found that 49% of millennial women feel tricked into buying additional, unnecessary features versus 34% of millennial men.
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The Mercedes SLS solved this problem by fitting explosive bolts in the hinges, which would blow up if the car rolled over, causing the door to fall off altogether. The Volvo YCC, a concept car designed by and for women, had gull-wing doors as part of its design. Gull-wing doors make it easier to lift a bag to store it behind the driver's seat ...
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