Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuyuki Nishiguchi

Kazumasa Hisada

Yusuke Nakashima

Gary Bozych

Takeru Ohshima

Joe Heim

Craig Boyd

A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left front wheels disposed at a front end of the vehicle body frame, and a pair of right and left rear wheels disposed at a rear end of the vehicle body frame. The vehicle body frame has, at a bottom thereof, a bottom main frame extending in an anteroposterior direction at a center in a vehicle width direction, and a pair of right and left bottom side frames located width direction extending in the anteroposterior direction between the front wheels and the rear wheels at outer ends in the vehicle, and the bottom side frames are located above the bottom main frame.

Utility vehicle

A wheel for a utility vehicle includes a first attaching face with which the wheel is to be attached to a hub of a vehicle body, and a second attaching face with which the wheel inversed in a vehicle width direction is to be attached to the hub. The wheel is structured such that the first attaching face is, when attached to the hub, offset outward in the vehicle width direction with respect to a center line in the vehicle width direction of the wheel, and the second attaching face is, when attached to the hub, offset inward in the vehicle width direction with respect to the center line in the vehicle width direction of the wheel.

Wheel for utility vehicle

A mounting structure for vehicle equipment includes a vehicle body frame, a bracket attached to the vehicle body frame, and a plurality of vehicle equipment including at least one seat. The bracket and the plurality of vehicle equipment are configured so that the plurality of vehicle equipment each is mounted to the bracket so as to be replaceable with the other vehicle equipment.

Mounting structure for vehicle equipment

A suspension structure of a utility vehicle includes a frame, a wheel, and a trailing arm including an arm extending anteroposteriorly and supported by the frame, a knuckle rotatably supporting the wheel, and a rotary shaft configured to angularly displace the knuckle in a vehicle width direction with respect to the arm.

Suspension structure of utility vehicle

A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a pair of right and left front wheels and a pair of right and left rear wheels. The vehicle body frame has, at a bottom thereof, a bottom main frame extending in an anteroposterior direction and provided with a frame front portion located between the front wheels, a frame rear portion located between the rear wheels, and a frame intermediate portion located between the frame front portion and the frame rear portion and extending in the anteroposterior direction. In a vehicle side view, the bottom main frame has a frame highest portion in the frame intermediate portion, which has a highest ground level in the bottom main frame, and the bottom main frame has a ground level gradually increasing from the frame front portion and the frame rear portion toward the frame highest portion.

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Irvine, CA, United States of America

Nobuyuki Nishiguchi