Patent ID: 8393428

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: a front seat; and a rear seat that is changeable between an installed state in which a passenger can be seated and a retracted state in which the passenger is not seated and the rear seat is retracted; an output control unit controlling the output of an engine; and detection means for detecting the installed state of the rear seat, wherein when the detection means detects the installed state of the rear seat, the output control unit regulates the output of the engine as compared with the output when the detection means does not detect the installed state of the rear seat, wherein a seating portion of the rear seat in the installed state is brought to a substantially horizontal state, wherein the detection means is a switch operable to detect a load, the switch being provided on a bottom surface of the seating portion when the seating portion of the rear seat is brought to the substantially horizontal state, and wherein the seating portion of the rear seat is brought to the substantially horizontal state so that the switch is pressed by the load of the rear seat to detect the installed state of the rear seat.