Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Geoffrey Ewing

Kenji Oda

Kiyohito Takano

Hideyoshi Kosuge

Kiyoaki Maeda

Mitsuhiro Yazaki

Satoshi Takaya

Yoji Onishi

Naohisa Masuda

Takao Hamano

Naoto Nakagawa

Kousei Hokari

Junhei Asahi

Naoki Tamai

Tokishin Nishinaka

Takeshi Orio

Michael John Boyle

Tatsunori Shimizu

Eiji Sakurada

Yui Nishizaki

Hiroyuki Kishi

A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed expandable in a front direction, and a screen shield arranged at a front end of the cargo bed. The cargo bed has at least a stationary bottom plate, right and left stationary side panels, a front panel, expandable side panels, and an expandable bottom plate and can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction to a rear portion riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the space. Each of the expandable side panels and the screen shield are supported by a vehicle body configuring portion so as to be integrally shifted between an expanded position and a non-expanded position.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a stationary cargo bed part serving as a bottom face and a side face of the cargo bed, a movable cargo bed part serving as the bottom face and the side face of the expanded cargo bed, and a cargo bed support mechanism for supporting the movable cargo bed part at a normal position and an expansion position set on the rear side of the normal position.

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Lincoln, NE, United States of America

Geoffrey Ewing