“For her, the difficulty of taking the doors off a regular truck and lack of anywhere to put them seemed like an inhibiting factor,” he said. “It led to a good idea.”
The story goes is that she wanted to go to the beach after work but because she worked at someone else’s house all day there was no place to store the removable doors. Designers then conceived the idea of a frameless, mirrorless door that could be both removed easily and stored within the SUV. This proved to be quite a challenge. Not only did the team have to design a wide enough trunk that didn’t interfere with the Bronco’s departure angle, the doors had to be light but not too thin.