List of cars with non-standard door designs

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.

The main types of non-standard door designs are:

Scissor doors

Butterfly doors

Road-legal cars

Racing cars

A common door design on Group C, IMSA GTP cars of the 1980s and early 1990s and recently on Daytona Prototype and Le Mans Prototype cars, this list does not include cars categorized as such. This list only include purpose built race cars.

Concept cars

Gullwing doors

Road-legal cars

Racing cars

Concept cars

Suicide doors

Delahaye Type 135 with its front suicide doors open

Models of automobile that featured suicide doors (i.e., doors hinged at the rear) includes some vehicles categorised:

Canopy doors

Lifting canopy on a Sterling Nova

Sliding doors

1954 Kaiser Darrin with its sliding pocket door opened

A common door design on minivans, leisure activity vehicles and light commercial vehicles includes some vehicles categorised:

Swan doors

They open outward like either a conventional door or a suicide door, but hinge slightly upward as well for better ground clearance, includes some vehicles categorised:

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