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mig25_foxbat2003
1,514 posts
80 months
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redgriff500 said: Sorry but I'd suggest that if the best feature of your car is how the doors open...
Your car has really awesome doors. EFA
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GingerWizard
4,586 posts
67 months
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that car rocks hard! tres cool!
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IainB30
14 posts
147 months
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Very cool. I sometimes see one around the West Dulwich area of south London, and it looks great.
The doors provided a design solution for the McLaren F1 didn't they?? I seem to remember reading somewhere that Peter Stevens and Gordon Murray were struggling how to get the F1 doors to work, and then someone pointed out the Sera's arrangement.
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Simonium
214 posts
21 months
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David87 said: Extremely rare and very cool. Anyone else see some new VW Scirocco in the front of it? In that there are lights and a bumper?
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TheHeretic
67,911 posts
124 months
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We were sat near the Sera stand at a Jap show many moons ago. Great little cars. Not the fastest, best handling,Merc, but certainly cool looking, and different.
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smartypants
17,340 posts
38 months
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redgriff500 said: Sorry but I'd suggest that if the best feature of your car is how the doors open...
It's a bad car. This unfortunately. Sorry it's a pretty horrid creation. But glad someone loves and cares for the ugly duckling 
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Geo22
29 posts
35 months
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not my cup of tea, ugly if ask me. whatever floats your boat i suppose.
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Wammer
172 posts
57 months
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Great car i have always wanted one for the quiky looks.
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carl_green
5 posts
77 months
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Thanks for all your comments i understand its not for some people, its kinda like a marmite car, i dont think there is an inbetween with it. you love it or you hate it, and i love it
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Garlick
38,251 posts
109 months
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I think it is impossible for owners of cars with such doors to photograph their cars with the doors closed. Diablo owners like open doors too 
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smartypants
17,340 posts
38 months
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Garlick said: I think it is impossible for owners of cars with such doors to photograph their cars with the doors closed. Diablo owners like open doors too Yes but with the doors closed this looks like a Mazda MX-3. A Diablo kinda still looks like a crazy and fantastic supercar regardless of silly doors 
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JackJack
23 posts
40 months
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Never seen one of these before, seems like a fun quirky car though!
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garypotter
550 posts
19 months
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Horrible little thing!
Yes I know each to thier own but def not for me!!
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XB70
1,711 posts
65 months
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There were a few of them running around in Oz...I have a photo somewhere of my SVX parked behind one (the windows are the same layout).
Come to think of it, so are the McF1's, EB110 etc.
A twin turbo Subaru SVX with a manual gearbox and with SERA type doors.....you can keep your Veyron's :-)
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norwichphoto
100 posts
57 months
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The doors actually work as well - if you parked in a normal car parking space at the supermarket or in a multi storey you can open the doors fully with only 18 inches of room either side. You can't do that with most cars with normal doors and have to slide yourself in an inelegant manner.
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SleeperCell
5,591 posts
111 months
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Fun fact, I remember reading in old magazine articles that the original AXV-II concept car on which the Sera production version was based was basically designed from focus groups trying to figure out what young professional Japanese women wanted in a car (probably the first time anyone in Japan had even thought of consulting women about cars!). They found women wanted basically a reliable, easy to drive normal car, but with more eye catching styling, the doors to grab attention and make exiting the car easier and better visibility and luggage space etc. If you read the painful PR copy in the brochure it does read like something they obtained from focus groups of what young women want in a car... This is why it's got such innovative styling but yet fairly ordinary mechanical underpinnings. It's actually pretty amazing they never made a factory turbo version considering just about every other JDM car of the era seems to have a turbo version somewhere in it's lineup and the Starlet GT engine goes right in!
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norwichphoto
100 posts
57 months
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The Sera club managed to track down the head of design (who at that point still had a Sera)
They said there were plans for a higher performance model and one with removable roof glass panels (making a sort of T-Bar).
So my interpretation of the higher performance model would have been the Starlet Turbo drivetrain, and when I did it on my own car as an experiment I found it to be pretty straightforward - the ECU was almost plug and play barring half a dozen easy wiring mods.
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thewheelman
2,194 posts
42 months
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Personally i think they look hideous, the doors look out of proportion to the rest of the car.
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Mark-C
1,712 posts
74 months
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Used to see one around Norwich occasionally - always made me smile.
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thewheelman
2,194 posts
42 months
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SleeperCell said: Fun fact, I remember reading in old magazine articles that the original AXV-II concept car on which the Sera production version was based was basically designed from focus groups trying to figure out what young professional Japanese women wanted in a car (probably the first time anyone in Japan had even thought of consulting women about cars!). They found women wanted basically a reliable, easy to drive normal car, but with more eye catching styling, the doors to grab attention and make exiting the car easier and better visibility and luggage space etc. If you read the painful PR copy in the brochure it does read like something they obtained from focus groups of what young women want in a car... This is why it's got such innovative styling but yet fairly ordinary mechanical underpinnings. It's actually pretty amazing they never made a factory turbo version considering just about every other JDM car of the era seems to have a turbo version somewhere in it's lineup and the Starlet GT engine goes right in! I think you'll find that focus groups have asked women what they want in a car, long before the Sera. Also, you claim "just about every other JDM car of that era seems to have a turbo version somewhere". Again, this is incorrect, the just a dull Toyota Paseo, of the same era also had no performance model.
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