do all gullwing cars have this safety feature?

[cm1179]

or is it just mercedes?

it looks like (and after doing a brief bit of research) that should you roll (eg) an sls and land it on its roof, the doors will blow themselves off their hinges via computerised detonation

 

[G-MAN2004]

That's pretty awesome.

 

[mjt]

What other cars are out there with gullwing doors?

 

[khevolution]

dont think there is many new cars with gullwings

 

[alex24]

What about scissor doors then, some high performance cars have those?

Not many gullwings nowadays, apart from the odd chav monstrosity.

 

[ubersonic]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the DMC Delorean and the Toyota Sera don't have that feature...

 

[Cosimo]

It is a safety feature:

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/10q2/2011_mercedes-benz_sls_amg-road_test

 

[Dr House]

shame they do not make a SLS 350 Cdi

Really nice looking car.

 

[Matt82]

3. Ava Gardner: Mercedes 300SL
The film star Ava Gardner, who by her own admission was a terrible driver and often ‘over refreshed’, famously crashed her Gullwing Mercedes in Spain. She lost it on a curve, mounted an embankment and rolled it twice before coming to rest on its roof. She was pulled from the wreck by farm workers who had to take her out through the smashed windscreen as the doors wouldn’t open when the SL was inverted, for obvious reasons. Many owners subsequently carried hammers just in case they did the same thing. Ava paid tribute to the cars ‘solid steel framework’ in her autobiography. She was in good company when it came to having ‘moments’ in a Gullwing. Even Stirling Moss was wary of its handling and its propensity for unsettling lift-off oversteer thanks to the unruly camber changes of its high pivot swing axles. He crashed one into an Italian army truck laden with explosives while on a training mission for the 1955 Mille Miglia.

 

[Rroff]

That looks like such a fun job

 

[TruffleShuffle]

Well that was disappointing, when i read "computerised detonation" that was not what i was expecting

 

[Basher]

That is the most disappointing detonation I have ever seen.

 

[cm1179]

well, there are likely to be people inside, it's hardly going to be detonation of a granite quarry scale, is it?

 

[Basher]

well, there are likely to be people inside, it's hardly going to be detonation of a granite quarry scale, is it?

I was hoping for something slightly more 'Bond'.

 

[Skillmister]

i was expecting a huge fireball and the wings flying 100m from the car

 

[Howard]

I was expecting them to fling open and lob the car back upright

 

[MrMoonX]

What other cars are out there with gullwing doors?

i saw a corsa once with them, I lol'd then puked

 

[Confused]

I was expecting them to fling open and lob the car back upright

A Robot Wars-esque srimech would be awesome.

 

[utajoker]

was expecting the doors to shoot off.

clip is disapoint.

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Looks like a good excuse for Merc to charge £10,000 for the day that the system is set off during a rear end collision with a Micra (shades of the story of the bill for the GTR that had a front end collision that set-off the bonnet explosives).