Patent ID: 8235164

Claim:
A snowmobile comprising: an engine; steering handlebars; a steering column attached to the steering handlebars and extending directly downward or obliquely downward; a power steering device attached to the steering column and including a sensor arranged to detect rotation of the steering column, a motor having a motor shaft tilted from both a fore and aft direction and a left and right direction of the snowmobile and driven based on a detection result of the sensor, and a rotary shaft disposed coaxially with the steering column; a power transmission mechanism arranged to transmit at least a driving force of the motor; and a ski coupled to the power transmission mechanism to be turned by the power transmission mechanism; wherein the power steering device is disposed rearward of the engine; the motor shaft is tilted rearward in the left and right direction of the snowmobile; the power steering device is attached to the steering column, such that a smallest dimension of the power steering device is oriented in a fore and aft direction of the vehicle, so that a length of the power steering device does not project forward or rearward of the smallest dimension in the fore and aft direction; and an axis of the motor shaft passes in front of the rotary shaft in the fore and aft direction.