Patent ID: 8434580

Claim:
A utility vehicle, comprising: a bonnet chamber positioned in a front part of the vehicle and covered with a bonnet; a partition plate and a dashboard positioned at a rear side of the bonnet chamber; a V-type engine arranged at a rear position relative to the bonnet chamber, the V-type engine including a front cylinder and a rear cylinder; and an air-intake apparatus for supplying combustion air to the engine, wherein the air-intake apparatus includes: an air-intake chamber arranged above a space between the front cylinder and the rear cylinder of the V-type engine; an air-intake duct connected to an air-intake portion of the V-type engine, the air-intake duct extending forward from the air intake-chamber, first, curving downward, then, extending upward along a rear surface of the partition plate, and last of all, entering a space in a rear upper portion of the bonnet chamber such that a front end of the air-intake duct is disposed in the upper end portion of the bonnet chamber; and an air cleaner case connected to the front end of the air-intake duct, the air cleaner case accommodating a tubular filter element, the air cleaner case being arranged so as to be inclined in the bonnet chamber so that a central axis of the filter element is inclined forward.