Exhibit 4.1


 




Specimen Unit Certificate


 


	NUMBER	UNITS
	U-	 


 


SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS


 


CUSIP [   ]


 


MOTOR CITY ACQUISITION CORP.


 


UNITS CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF CLASS A
COMMON STOCK AND ONE FOURTH OF ONE

 WARRANT,


EACH WHOLE WARRANT ENTITLING THE HOLDER TO PURCHASE
ONE SHARE OF CLASS A

 COMMON STOCK


 


THIS CERTIFIES THAT                     
is the owner of          Units.


 


Each Unit (“Unit”)
consists of one (1) share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), of
Motor City Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and one fourth of one redeemable warrant
(the “Warrant”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one (1) share (subject to adjustment)
of Common Stock for $11.50 per share (subject to adjustment). Each Warrant will become exercisable on the later of (i) thirty
(30) days after the Company’s completion of a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization
or other similar business combination with one or more businesses (each a “Business Combination”), or (ii) twelve
(12) months from the closing of the Company’s initial public offering, and will expire unless exercised before 5:00 p.m., New
York City Time, on the date that is five (5) years after the date on which the Company completes its initial Business Combination,
or earlier upon redemption or liquidation (the “Expiration Date”). The Common Stock and Warrants comprising
the Units represented by this certificate are not transferable separately prior to           
, 2021, unless Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co, LLC elect to allow separate trading earlier, subject to the
Company’s filing of a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission containing an audited balance
sheet reflecting the Company’s receipt of the gross proceeds of the Company’s initial public offering and issuing a press
release announcing when separate trading will begin. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the Units and only
whole Warrants will trade. The terms of the Warrants are governed by a Warrant Agreement, dated as of             
, 2021, between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Warrant Agent, and are subject to the terms and
provisions contained therein, all of which terms and provisions the holder of this certificate consents to by acceptance hereof. Copies
of the Warrant Agreement are on file at the office of the Warrant Agent at 1 State Street, 30th Floor, New York, New York
10004, and are available to any Warrant holder on written request and without cost.


 


This certificate is not valid
unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and Registrar of the Company.


 


This certificate shall be governed
by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.


 


Witness the facsimile signature
of a duly authorized signatory of the Company.


 


	 	 	 	 	 
	Authorized Signatory	 	 	 	Transfer Agent


 


[Signature page to Amended and Restated


Certificate of Incorporation]


 






    


     


    

  


 


Motor City Acquisition Corp.


 


The Company will furnish without
charge to each unitholder who so requests, a statement of the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional
or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Company and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions of
such preferences and/or rights.


 


The following abbreviations,
when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to
applicable laws or regulations: 


 


	TEN COM    —     as tenants in common	 	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT	 	—	 	 	 	Custodian	 	 
	TEN ENT     —      as tenants by the entireties	 	 	 	 	 	    (Cust)    	 	 	 	      (Minor)      
	 	 	 	 
	JT TEN         —     as joint tenants 

with right of 

survivorship and 

not as tenants in 

common	 	 	 	under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	(State)


 


Additional abbreviations may also be used though
not in the above list.


 


For value received, _____________ hereby sell,
assign and transfer unto ________________________________________________________________


 




(PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING
NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE) 





 


(PLEASE PRINT OR
TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)


 


Units represented by the
within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint 


 


Attorney to transfer the said
Units on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.


 


Dated__________


 


	 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	Notice: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.


 


	Signature(s) Guaranteed:	 
	 	 



 


	THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE).	 


 






    


     


    

 


In each case, as more fully
described in the Company’s final prospectus dated                   ,
2021, the holder(s) of this certificate shall be entitled to receive a pro-rata portion of certain funds held in the trust account
established in connection with its initial public offering only in the event that (i) the Company redeems the shares of Common Stock
sold in the Company’s initial public offering and liquidates because it does not consummate an initial business combination within
the time period set forth in the Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation, as the same may be amended from time
to time (such date being referred to herein as the “Last Date”), (ii) the Company redeems the shares of Common Stock
sold in its initial public offering in connection with a stockholder vote to amend the Company’s amended and restated certificate
of incorporation to modify the substance or timing of the Company’s obligation to provide holders of shares of Common Stock the
right to have their shares redeemed in connection with the Company’s initial Business Combination or to redeem 100% of the shares
of Common Stock if it does not consummate an initial Business Combination by the Last Date, or (iii) if the holder(s) seek(s) to
redeem for cash his, her or its respective shares of Common Stock in connection with a tender offer (or proxy solicitation, solely in
the event the Company seeks stockholder approval of the proposed initial business combination) setting forth the details of a proposed
initial business combination. In no other circumstances shall the holder(s) have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust
account.