Patent ID: 7093685

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: a front axle; a pair of rear axle shafts; a seat with a minimum capacity of two occupants secured to the vehicle and positioned between the front axle and the rear axle shafts; an engine having an engine output shaft and mounted between the front axle and the rear axle shafts and at least partially below the seat; a load bed extending from the seat toward the rear of the vehicle; a hydraulic pump driven by a pump input shaft driven by the engine; and a hydraulic motor driving a motor output shaft, the hydraulic motor driven by the hydraulic pump, wherein the engine output shaft, the pump input shaft and the motor output shaft are generally parallel to the front axle and the rear axle shafts; a mechanical gear box comprising a gear box input shaft drivingly connected to the motor output shaft; and a plurality of gears disposed in the mechanical gear box, wherein the plurality of gears is driven by the gear box input shaft and drives the rear axle shafts through a differential.