Butterfly doors

Side view of butterfly door on a Toyota Sera

Butterfly doors are a type of car door. They are sometimes on high-performance cars. Butterfly doors move out from the car and up from hinges. This makes it easier to enter and exit the car.

History

The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale was the first car with butterfly doors.

Butterfly doors were first seen on the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale in 1967.

The Toyota Sera was the first mass-produced car with butterfly doors. The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is one of the few open-top cars to use butterfly wing doors. This is made possible by having hinge points along the side of the A-pillar instead of at the top.

• Examples
• 
  1996 McLaren F1
• 
  Porsche 911 GT1
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  Ferrari Enzo
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  Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster
• 
  LaFerrari
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  BMW i8
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  Frameless butterfly doors on Maserati MC20
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  Cadillac Opulent Velocity

 

Other websites

• Media related to Automobiles with butterfly doors at Wikimedia Commons