Patent ID: 8096600

Claim:
A pick-up style utility vehicle comprising: a driver's seat; a front passenger seat next to the driver's seat; one or more rear passenger seats behind the driver's seat and a cargo bed, wherein: at least one of the one or more rear passenger seats is changeable between a first state in which the rear passenger seat is seatable and a second state in which the rear passenger seat is retracted so that the rear passenger seat is used as part of the cargo bed; the changeable rear passenger seat has a seat bottom and a backrest and is installed so as to be seatable in a vehicle width direction when the changeable rear passenger seat is in the first state in which the changeable rear passenger seat is seatable; the seat bottom is arranged below a bottom plate of the cargo bed; the backrest is position changeable between an erected position in which the backrest exposes the upper surface of the seat bottom when the changeable rear passenger seat is in the first state and a fallen position in which the backrest becomes part of the bottom plate to cover the upper side of the seat bottom when the changeable rear passenger seat is in the second state; the cargo bed has a rear panel erected from the rear end of the cargo bed and a pair of side panels erected from the left and right ends of the cargo bed; and part of each of the side panels hangs down when the changeable rear passenger seat is in the first state in which the rear passenger seat is seatable.