Patent ID: 8267456

Claim:
A compact seating arrangement for a vehicle, the seating arrangement comprising at least three seats: a front driver's seat arranged substantially centrally and, at least to some extent, forward of two substantially transversely aligned rear passenger seats, wherein the driver's seat extends transversely so as to be positioned in front of part of each of the rear passengers' seats, the extent of the overlap in the transverse position of the driver's seat and the rear passenger seats being such that each side of the driver's seat comprises a seat base on which a user sits having a top surface and a bottom surface and a seat back having a front surface for supporting a user's back and a back surface and a space or a cut-out is provided on each side of the seat base from the top surface to the bottom surface and/or a space or cut-out is provided on each side of the seat back of the driver's seat from the front surface to the back surface so as to be able to accommodate at least part of a leg of a passenger seated in a forward facing position in a respective one of the rear passenger seats whereby the spacing between a center line of the driver's seat and center lines of each of the passenger seats and thus the spacing between occupants of the passenger seats can be reduced.