Which Honda folding scooter was sold from 1981 to 1983?

The Honda folding scooter sold from 1981 to 1983 was the Honda Motocompo.

Honda designed the Motocompo as a compact “trunk bike” for the Japanese market. Its handlebars, seat and foot-pegs folded into a rectangular body, allowing the scooter to be carried inside a small car. Honda developed the luggage area of the contemporaneous Honda City with the Motocompo in mind, making the pairing a distinctive example of integrated car-and-motorcycle design.

The Motocompo used a small air-cooled two-stroke single-cylinder engine, an automatic clutch and a single-speed transmission. It was sold as a factory add-on with cars rather than as a completely separate conventional scooter product. Television advertising even promoted it alongside the Honda City using the British ska band Madness.

The other choices belong to different Honda scooter lines. The Gyro is associated with three-wheeled utility scooters, the Ruckus is a later minimalist scooter sold in several markets, and the Spacy was a conventional step-through scooter family. The Motocompo’s defining clue is its box-like folding design.