Patent ID: 8042628

Claim:
A vehicle, comprising: a main body having at least an engine and a gearbox and configured to be fitted mechanically to form a wheeled vehicle, or to form a crawler vehicle; the main body having a rear portion supporting and housing a differential, the rear portion having two casings projecting therefrom on opposite sides of an axis of longitudinal symmetry of the main body, each casing having a casing flange mounted thereto with means by which to configure the vehicle as a wheeled vehicle or a rectangular track crawler vehicle, and each casing housing a projecting portion of a respective output shaft, wherein the differential is connected mechanically to a drive shaft, by which it is powered, and to two hydrostatic steering motors located on opposite sides of the axis of longitudinal symmetry of the main body, wherein each one of the two hydrostatic steering motors is mounted to a respective one of the two casing flanges for receiving power from the differential to transmit to a respective drive wheel, and wherein a ring gear of the differential can be arranged in a first position on a first lateral side of a drive shaft pinion to configure the vehicle to drive either one of wheels or triangular crawler tracks.