It's not my "gut" reaction - it's my intellectual perception. Scissor doors and gullwings serve a purpose. They are designed to ease entry into cars that have high & wide sills due to frame components, which are designed to add rigidity to the chassis. The Vehicross has no such frame components. Its chassis is not designed to be rigid, because it's not a race car. Therefore, the purpose of scissor doors is nil, and they don't, in fact, "very much fit with the VX look".Originally Posted by Tone
If, however, you were to cut the doors in half at the cladding line and introduce a rollcage/frame inside the bottom half to increase rigidity, and cut your roof in half and make gullwings, then you would be increasing the functionality of the vehicle and creating a purpose for the vertical doors. This is what I plan to do with my next VX.
Understand that the difference is between function and kitsch. One is cool because of how and why it works, and the other is pathetic, because it attempts to imitate the "cool" while providing no functionality, and in fact often decreasing functionality. In the car world, "kitsch" is called "ricer".
Are you sure it wasn't a Mercedes/McLaren SLR? That car looks a lot like an SL with a body kit, and has gullwing doors because it's an exotic car with very high/wide sills, and therefore needs them for ease of ingress and egress.
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