page_title: Gull-wing door
section_title: List of automobiles
hierarchical_section_title: Gull-wing door / List of automobiles
caption_attribution_description: English: Model X vs. DeLorean "The Doors that Go Like This" With a “Backing the Future” theme as it was the 30-year anniversary of the movie Back to the Future, as well as the 30th year of DFJ. In the movie series, they jump to THE FUTURE… and it’s October 2015. So we had a tricked out DeLorean, and staged perhaps the first face-off of the gull-wing doors and the Model X falcon-wing doors
context_page_description: A gull-wing door, also known as a falcon-wing door or an up-door, is an automotive industry term describing car doors that are hinged at the roof rather than the side, as pioneered by the 1952 Mercedes-Benz 300SL race car and its road-legal version introduced in 1954.
  Opening upwards, the doors evoke the image of a seagull's wings. In French they are portes papillon. The papillon door was designed by Jean Bugatti for the 1939 Type 64, 14 years before Mercedes-Benz produced its similar, famous 300SL gullwing door. The papillon door is a precursor to the gullwing door, and is slightly different in its architecture, but is often overlooked when discussing gull-wing design. Conventional car doors are typically hinged at the front-facing edge of the door, with the door swinging outward horizontally.
  Apart from the Mercedes-Benz 300SL of the mid-1950s and the experimental Mercedes-Benz C111 of the early 1970s, the best-known examples of road-cars with gull-wing doors are the Bricklin SV-1 from the 1970s, the DMC DeLorean from the 1980s, and the Tesla Model X of the 2010s.
context_section_description: The following is a (partial) list of production and kit automobiles with gull-wing doors:
caption: Tesla Model X
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