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Butterfly doors

Side view of butterfly door on a Toyota Sera


Butterfly doors are a type of car door sometimes seen on high-performance cars. They are slightly different from scissor doors. While scissor doors move straight up via hinge points at the bottom of a car's A-pillar, butterfly doors move up and out via hinges along the A-pillar.[1] This makes for easier entry and exit, at the expense of requiring more side clearance than needed for scissor doors.

  1. ^ Keith Lane (2011). Automotive A-Z: Lane's complete dictionary of automotive terms. David and Charles. ISBN 978-1845844196.

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