Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideaki Shinnoki

Shinichi Tamba

Teruaki Yamamoto

Tomohiro Kanazawa

Takao Kawabata

Hideyoshi Kosuge

Masaki Nishiyabu

Hirokazu Morita

Masaki Tanaka

Masashi Sakata

Hidekazu Yasui

Eiji Ihara

Ryouji Negi

A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from front, a cabin frame surrounding a riding space, and a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward to the rear riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. All or part of the screen shield is angle shiftable between the expanded state and the non-expanded state.

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

Hideaki Shinnoki