Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Eiji Ihara

Takao Kawabata

Masaki Tanaka

Hidekazu Yasui

Shinichi Tamba

Kenji Oda

Hideaki Shinnoki

Hirokazu Morira

A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed. The cargo bed is expandable forward and has a screen shield for partitioning at a front end thereof. The rear seat has a seat bottom for the rear seat detachably attached to a rear seat attaching portion provided on a vehicle body. The screen shield has a seat holding portion to which the seat bottom, detached from the rear seat attaching portion, is attachable.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A pick-up style utility vehicle has a driver's seat, a seat next to the driver's seat, one or more passenger seats behind the driver's seat, and a cargo bed. Each of all the passenger seats and the seat next to the driver's seat is independently changeable between a first state in which the seat is seatable and a second state in which the seat is retracted so that an occupied space of the seat can be used as part of the cargo bed. Preferably, a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a riding space in front of the cargo bed is provided. The screen shield is divided into left and right screen shield members.

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Kobe, Japan

Eiji Ihara