Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Circular Door Handles

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve asked for suggested topics for Encyclopedia Hoonatica, and our own Kaptain Kamil responded by suggesting today’s topic: circular door handles. He included a photo of a Fiat Ritmo (known as the Strada in the U.S.), which was the first one to come to my mind. Okay, it was the only one to come to mind. Since I was unsure how much runway this topic had beyond that, I did some research on my own and was able to come up with exactly two other vehicles that fit this category. Can the hive-mind uncover some that I’ve missed?
The Caveats (there are always caveats):

  • The actual handle itself does not need to be round, just the overall shape of the backplate.
  • Circular means round, not rounded or oval.
  • It’s okay to think beyond the outside of the driver’s door. Inside door handles, liftgate and cargo door handles are all allowable.
  • Cars, light trucks and heavy duty trucks are all fair game. I think we can safely exclude motorcycles on this.
  • Airplanes? Let’s not go there.

Difficulty: The low hanging fruit is already gone.
How This Works: Read the comments first and don’t post duplicates! Bonus points for adding photos.
Image Source: Wikipedia

By Peter Tanshanomi

Tanshanomi is Japanese [単車のみ] for "motorcycle(s) only." Though primarily tasked with creating two-wheel oriented content for Hooniverse, Pete is a lover of all sorts of motorized vehicles.

36 thoughts on “Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Circular Door Handles”
    1. Came here to post this. The door handles on my father’s HHR felt exceptionally cheap.

      1. Understandable – it’s not the most graceful thing on the road. But my goodness it’s a desirable car.

        1. first (and only) one i saw over here was being pushstarted out of a gas station by some highly amused but quite helpful chaps
          i settled for highly amused at a distance

    1. Rover, think I could whittle that second one (Trapeze?) outta a rusty Fiat X1/9 and
      some skillfull fiberglas work.

  1. Is it still a door handle if it’s not on the actual door ? Can THAT be considered a door in the first place ? Who cares, have some Stratos Zero :

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