Today, we’re stepping away from the current sequence on MG with the most dramatic Jaguar ever made, the XJ220 - although there is an interesting MG connection. This is the XJ220 prototype which had 4WD and a Jag V12 engine. The production version instead got rear-wheel drive and a development of the V6 engine used in yesterday’s MG Metro 6R4. Those fancy scissor doors were dropped for production too. Snapped at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon.
@davidwilkins shipping a car with gullwing or scissor doors can be a difficult proposition.
It is the type of trivia that car dorks love, but when Mercedes released the SLS in 2011 they had exploding bolts fitted to the door hinge mechanism that would blow the hinge open in the case the car became inverted.
And since Mercedes is Mercedes they released this cool video of the system being tested too
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