Sometimes the wheel – or the door – just doesn’t need reinventing. Car makers have played around with rear-hinged doors for years but, for plenty of reasons, they’ve never really caught on.

If you’re in a car and it starts burning, you’re going to open a door and get out as quickly as possible. However, in some ...

Suicide doors are car doors hinged to open at the rear instead of the front. While the vast majority of today's vehicles use front-hinged doors, rear-hinged or "suicide" doors have been around ...

Unfortunately, like a lot of the Cybertruck, this mechanism was not well thought out for the rear two doors. The front doors can open manually using a small lever in front of the window switches ...