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'Suicide doors' make a comeback on 80th anniversary edition Lincoln Continental
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| 12-17-2018
| Robert Ferris
Posted on 12/17/2018 8:33:35 AM PST by NRx
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:33:35 AM PST
by
NRx
To: NRx
Now I’m just waiting for the return of running boards and hood ornaments.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:35:57 AM PST
by
NRx
(A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
To: NRx
How about a pair of fender-mounted spare tires ?
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:37:44 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: NRx
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:40:12 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: NRx
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:41:51 AM PST
by
Huntress
("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy."--Walter Williams)
To: NRx
“More recent takes on the suicide door have incorporated safety features such as locking the door once the car reaches a certain speed. “
My Mustang does that!
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:44:45 AM PST
by
TexasGator
(Z1z)
To: NRx
The doors are not just a gimmick or aesthetic flourish. By opening toward the rear of the car, they allow passengers in the rear seats to enter and exit the vehicle more comfortably.
That’s why they existed in the first place. In fact, a lot of two door cars had the two doors opening the same way the back doors open here.
To: NRx
Sedans are a tough sell these days. Ford said it plans to all but stop making them over the next several years, with the exception of its Mustang sports car. The Mustang is a sedan?
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:52:08 AM PST
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: NRx
I though they already made a comeback on the RX8
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:53:01 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: TexasGator
Suicide doors were especially popular with mobsters in the gangster era of the 1930s, supposedly owing to the ease of pushing passengers out of moving vehicles, according to Dave Brownell, the former editor of Hemmings Motor News. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_door
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:56:34 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: NRx
The primary benefit seems to be a missing B pillar.
I hate that blind spot.
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:57:17 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: NRx
In a rollover accident that thing will tear apart like a beer can!
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posted on
12/17/2018 8:58:57 AM PST
by
9422WMR
To: cuban leaf
To: rjsimmon
The Mustang is a sedan?I know that time has sometimes left me feeling like it has taken off and left me stranded somewhere... sort of my own version of Sleeper. Who knew? How long has it been a sedan?
To: NRx
Can we get real bumpers back? You know, the ones you can bump that actually protect the car?
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posted on
12/17/2018 9:06:31 AM PST
by
keats5
To: TexasGator
More recent takes on the suicide door have incorporated safety features such as locking the door once the car reaches a certain speed. More recent takes on the suicide door have incorporated a safety feature such that the rear door cannot be opened until the corresponding front door has been opened.
You see this on extended cab pickup trucks, the Honda Elememt, and the Toyota FJ. Some passenger cars also included a passenger side only third door that opened suicide but didn't open until the front passenger door was opened.
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posted on
12/17/2018 9:07:54 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: NRx
If only it could be a design like this without a B-pillar.... The Continental that will be in production still has a center pillar, probably for rigidity and crash-protection reasons.
To: Yossarian
Right you are!
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posted on
12/17/2018 9:21:33 AM PST
by
al_c
(https://conventionofstates.com)
To: NRx
Ford cars are crap and breakdown early.
All they have are gimmicks, it seems n
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posted on
12/17/2018 9:30:55 AM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: keats5
“Can we get real bumpers back? You know, the ones you can bump that actually protect the car?”
Personally, I miss the steel dashboard and non-collapsable steering column.
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posted on
12/17/2018 9:32:57 AM PST
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
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