Maserati Medici

The Maserati Medici is a concept car developed by the Turin design firm Italdesign for Maserati, with two slightly different versions, the Medici I of 1974 and the Medici II of 1976, both led by Giorgetto Giugiaro. It was a design study for a luxury sports sedan, built as a four-door fastback on the frame of the Maserati Indy and using that car's longitudinally mounted 4.9 litre V8. The Medici I, first shown at the Turin Auto Show in October 1974, had six seats and a trapezoidal C-pillar that Giugiaro reused on later cars. The Medici II, shown at the 1976 Paris Motor Show, was a four-seater with a bar, refrigerator and television in the rear and a squarer front end. It is regarded as the stylistic predecessor of the Quattroporte III, was sold in 1977 to the Shah of Persia, and now resides in the Louwman Collection.