EDIT: Wait, stop everything! I have something to say, mates:

I try to spread my posts amongst a smorgasbord of communities I find worthy of supporting, but I can tell you frankly, if the following StarTrek TOS movie post is valued so little, then to me, this community is worth the same as that one.

It’s a fun movie scene, or do you disagree?
https://piefed.social/c/startrek@lemmy.world/p/2389959/this-isn-t-reality-this-is-fantasy-uhura-to-mr-adventure-stiii


"As you know my friends, it all begins with “fine, Corinthian leather…!”

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=montalban+corinthian+leather

Well… actually:

The Orbit was a further refinement of previous Italdesign concepts such as the Alfa Romeo New York Taxi (1976), Lancia Megagamma (1978), Capsula (1982) and Together (1984). The concept was built on a Volkswagen Golf Mk2 platform, specifically the new “Syncro.” The goal was to produce a car around 4m in length. The concept was 15cm taller than the existing Volkswagen Golf and featured a large amount of glass.

The Orbit would be developed further into the Italdesign Machimoto, shown the same year. --WP


https://assets.dyler.com/uploads/posts/265/images/5417/volkswagen-orbit.jpg

This shot is certainly from one of the testing phases. I personally find it hilarious:


https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qe8qpxvWbiw/maxresdefault.jpg

From this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe8qpxvWbiw

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    Dashboard looks like it came out of Star Trek.

    Manual Transmission. With absurdly long throw.

    Idk why it just looks weird together.

    Mid-80s 300ZX had a similar dash and also offered MT but it looked so much less out-of-place there. Maybe because this car isn’t nearly as sporty? Or that shifter looks like it was taken out of a pickup?