Italdesign Marlin

The Italdesign Marlin is a concept sedan that Italdesign showed at the 1984 Turin Motor Show, named for the tapering shapes of the oceanic swordfish. It is a three-box, five-door car with great habitability, as long as the Lancia Thema and the Saab, 4,600 mm, but with a far more tapered body that reaches a drag coefficient of 0.21. The glazed roof and side windows form a transparent dome with 360 degrees of visibility from the inside. The steering wheel resembles those of the Medusa and the Orca, with central controls, and the instruments are both analogue and digital. At Turin Italdesign offered two architectures on one chassis, the Orca's: this sedan and the space-wagon Together. Story Cars, citing Italdesign and allcarindex, lists a front transverse Lancia Delta HF 1,585 cc four-cylinder turbo engine of 130 hp driving all four wheels, in a body 1,740 mm wide and 1,370 mm high on a 2,665 mm wheelbase.