Wonder how much a replacement door comes in at?

Probably cheaper to teach the kids not to fling doors open. Or apply the child locks. Or just put a rubber strip at the doors' widest points.

Sliding doors can be heavy and awkward to operate if the vehicle is facing uphill. They're not without merit, but the conventional hinged door didn't come to supremacy by accident.

I nearly mentioned your second paragraph in my post. Actually, best not to take children in any vehicle without sliding doors! :)

Probably cheaper to teach the kids not to fling doors open.

Yep. Children are trainable, so I've been led to believe. I used to get b******ed as a child if I slammed or flung the doors of my parents' car!

There isn't much that is truly innovative in todays car designs. The Meriva and the B-Max both feature the absence of the B pillar between the front and rear passenger compartments. Differences - the Meriva has suicide style rear doors, and the B-Max sliding rear doors.

I believe the first generation Nissan Priarie introduced in 1982, was the first to feature this type of body - allowing very easy access to both the front and the rear compartments. It also had rear sliding doors.

The first Praire was the Austin Maxi of MPVs. I good idea but not particularly attractive.

Children are only trainable, if they are trained.

Just keep the child locks on. If thats not possible then wrap the little b******s up and put them in the boot.

Theres only two types of people who force a vehicle driver to use childlocks.

Children and criminals.

Read into that what you will.

Gullwings are brilliant for hitting traffic wardens in the face when they werent expecting it.