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The invention relates to a motor vehicle in which the passengers are located in a fish-bone geometry, with their shoulders and heads in close relationship so as to obtain a compact arrangement at the passenger compartment center. This permits the provision of a vehicle having the best aerodynamic pr

The invention relates to a motor vehicle in which the passengers are located in a fish-bone geometry, with their shoulders and heads in close relationship so as to obtain a compact arrangement at the passenger compartment center. This permits the provision of a vehicle having the best aerodynamic properties, both due to a reduction of the front cross sectional area thereof with respect to the conventional motor vehicles, and due to a better form factor particularly obtained also by spacing the passenger compartment bottom from the ground and locating the passenger legs in suitable lateral depressions provided in a location substantially aligned with and among the vehicle wheels.

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A motor vehicle for a plurality of passengers comprising: a body having a longitudinal axis lying in a direction of travel of the motor vehicle, a floor, a ceiling and a pair of side walls each extending from said floor to said ceiling, defining a passenger compartment; a plurality of seats in said

A motor vehicle for a plurality of passengers comprising: a body having a longitudinal axis lying in a direction of travel of the motor vehicle, a floor, a ceiling and a pair of side walls each extending from said floor to said ceiling, defining a passenger compartment; a plurality of seats in said compartment lying in two rows extending along said longitudinal axis, each row lying adjacent one of said pair of side walls and facing at an acute angle with respect to said longitudinal axis, each seat of one of said two rows being offset with respect to each seat of the other of said two rows along said longitudinal axis so that heads and shoulders of passengers sitting in said seats are in a position of close relationship in said compartment; said pair of side walls converging toward each other in a direction upwardly of said wall at about a position of waists of passengers sitting in said seats and above said position of close relationship, at an acute angle with respect to a vertical line extending through said longitudinal axis; and a pair of lateral bodies each extending parallel to said longitudinal axis and lying on opposite sides of said longitudinal axis, each lateral body connected to said compartment and extending below said floor, a cross sectional shape of said compartment and connected lateral bodies being substantially in the form of a truncated letter A, said floor corresponding to a cross member of the truncated letter A and spaced above a plane on which said wheels are adapted to roll.