Patent ID: 8851547

Claim:
A seating arrangement of a vehicle, wherein the seating arrangement has at least three seats and comprising two rear passenger seats aligned substantially transversely, and a driver's seat arranged substantially centrally and in front of said two rear passenger seats, wherein said driver's seat extends rearwards beyond the front of the legs of the rear passengers when seated in the passenger seats such that the passengers' knees substantially overlap with the driver's trunk and the driver's seat both transversely and longitudinally, in which the seats are arrangeable in multiple configurations: a three-seat configuration with a storage space behind the passenger seats, a two-seat configuration with one of the passenger seats folded down to extend said storage space and a one-seat configuration in which both passenger seats are folded down to extend further said storage space and wherein a vehicle engine is mounted in a space beneath said storage space behind the passenger seats and/or beneath the passenger seats and a fuel tank, batteries or other power source is mounted beneath the driver's seat.