true or fake

[maxpower]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=923532797672098

[Lord Sterling]

True. It never caught on probably due to costs and safety implications or whatever. Very few cars have them, I think the BMW Z1 had them.

 

Here is a vid of one For Sale:

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The side impact protection of a Citroen Mehari.

[Stanky]

The side impact protection of a Citroen Mehari.

 

I think you'll find that the armrest which is deployed at 0:37 definitely* gives all* the side impact protection* you could possibly ever require*

 

but yeah, looks cool, probably goes wrong after 10 or 15 uses and either imprisons you in your own car, locks you out, or gets stuck open - probably in the worst rainstorm in 1000 years. 

 

*goes off to look into whether Jatech are still trading*

[Pillock]

Yeah the Z1 had them, they showed the mechanism in a wheeler dealers and it looked like a Citroen engineer from the 1970s smoked too much weed and played with Meccano.

[Junkman]

71-76 GM full size wagons had a tailgate arrangement not dissimilar to this.

Worked* a treat* in Winters with snow and ice.

[Felly Magic]

Cars would have ground clearance issues too I would think. It's a good idea in principle, but sadly not a practical idea

[mercrocker]

Mk 1 Minis had a similar, much cruder arrangement.   It just involved waiting a couple of years for the studs holding the front hinges to shear off.   Mine quite often dropped its window glass into the front pockets too.  No wires involved....

[brickwall]

71-76 GM full size wagons had a tailgate arrangement not dissimilar to this.

Worked* a treat* in Winters with snow and ice.

 

 

 

Did they not also have a huge swing-out boot instead of a flip down and iirc the class slid up into the roof. Am I remembering this correctly?