Italdesign Machimoto

The Italdesign Machimoto was a concept car by the styling house Italdesign, shown at the 1986 Turin Motor Show. It was developed from the Volkswagen Orbit concept of the same year, and both used the Volkswagen Golf Mk2 platform. The idea was a car for socialising, a cross between a car and a motorcycle: the seats were two parallel rows of motorcycle-style saddles that could accommodate 6 or 9 people depending on the configuration, and each passenger had a seat belt. It used the 1.8 litre 16-valve engine from the Golf GTI. The design never went into production. The car later appeared in the 1996 Italian science fiction comedy film A spasso nel tempo alongside the BMW Nazca C2 and the Italdesign Aztec.