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Vehicle body

  • US 5,538,309 A
  • Filed: 04/05/1995
  • Issued: 07/23/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A vehicle having an engine which is disposed substantially in a middle of the length of the vehicle, the vehicle including a seating arrangement having a substantially central longitudinal axis, which extends from a front to a rear thereof, for alignment with a central longitudinal axis of the vehicle, the seating arrangement comprising:

  • a central driver'"'"'s seat and first and second individual rear passenger seats, wherein the centre of said driver'"'"'s seat is arranged on said substantially central longitudinal axis of the seating arrangement, and said first and second rear passenger seats are rearwardly of said driver'"'"'s seat and are spaced on opposite sides of said substantially central longitudinal axis of the vehicle, centres of said first and second rear passenger seats being aligned along an axis extending substantially transversely to said substantially central longitudinal axis of the seating arrangement,wherein each of said driver'"'"'s seat and said first and second rear passenger seats has a respective longitudinal centre line which extends through the centre of the respective seat, the longitudinal centre lines of all of the seats extending substantially parallel to each other, generally from the front to the rear of the seating arrangement and substantially parallel to the substantially central longitudinal axis of the seating arrangement, andwherein said driver'"'"'s seat extends transversely with respect to said central longitudinal axis of the seating arrangement to overlap part of each said rear passenger seat, and said driver'"'"'s seat extends rearwardly beyond a front of each said rear passenger seat.

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