Rolls Royce RR4 to come with suicide doors?

Guess what? The much-awaited Rolls Royce RR4 will hit the streets with a surprising rear suicide doors. You heard it right, folks. RR4 comes equipped with suicide doors. What’s a suicide door, by the way? According to Wikipedia, a suicide door is a car door that is hinged on the edge closer to the rear of the vehicle.The term reflects a perceived increased danger of the door falling open when the car is moving.
For sometime, Rolls Royce officials kept inquiries at bay about the car’s detailed specs except that the designers molded it after the road-hugging BMW-7 series.The usual aluminum-steel base combination provides RR4 the necessary legroom for a comfortable driving.
Now its spy shots showed distinctive improvements. There’s the shorter wheelbase, for a start. This means that RR4 will use the BMW Series -7 platform, but with its own custom-built engine. This was no big deal, of course, since car enthusiasts had already seen it coming. So what’s surprising about RR4? Spy shots showed hinges of its rear doors are built at the rearmost part of the panel, an unmistakable indication of suicide doors.Understandably, its manufacturers will juggle for semantics and call it “coach doors” instead. Rolls Royce RR4, priced at a staggering £170,000, will be officially presented Geneva Motor Show this coming March 2009 and production will begin immediately a year after. Until then, the reason why RR4 has suicide doors is as good as anybody’s guess.